MLV(i)
1 Then all the captains of the forces and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,
2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you and pray for us to Jehovah your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do behold us,
3 that Jehovah your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you*. Behold, I will pray to Jehovah your* God according to your* words and it will happen that whatever thing Jehovah will answer you*, I will declare it to you*. I will keep nothing back from you*.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness among us, if we do not according to all the word with which Jehovah your God will send you to us. 6 Whether it is good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God. 7 And it happened after ten days, that the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah. 8 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 and said to them, Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to whom you* sent me to present your* supplication before him: 10 If you* will still abide in this land, then I will build you* and not pull you* down and I will plant you* and not pluck you* up, for I relent of the evil that I have done to you*.
11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you* are afraid. Do not be afraid of him, says Jehovah, for I am with you* to save you* and to deliver you* from his hand. 12 And I will grant you* mercy, that he may have mercy upon you* and cause you* to return to your* own land.
13 But if you* say, We will not dwell in this land, so that you* do not obey the voice of Jehovah your* God, 14 saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread and we will dwell there–
15 Now therefore hear the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah. Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: If you* indeed set your* faces to enter into Egypt and go to journey there, 16 then it will happen, that the sword, which you* fear, will overtake you* there in the land of Egypt and the famine, of which you* are afraid, will follow hard after you* there in Egypt and there you* will die.
17 So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to journey there. They will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
18 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured forth upon you* when you* will enter into Egypt. And you* will be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach. And you* will see this place no more.
19 Jehovah has spoken concerning you*, O remnant of Judah, Go not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have testified to you* this day.
20 For you* made your* own souls go-astray. For you* sent me to Jehovah your* God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God and according to all that Jehovah our God will say, so declare to us and we will do it. 21 And I have this day declared it to you*. But you* have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your* God in anything for which he has sent me to you*.
22 Now therefore know certainly that you* will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, in the place where you* desire to go to journey there.
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you*. Behold, I will pray to Jehovah your* God according to your* words and it will happen that whatever thing Jehovah will answer you*, I will declare it to you*. I will keep nothing back from you*.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness among us, if we do not according to all the word with which Jehovah your God will send you to us. 6 Whether it is good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God. 7 And it happened after ten days, that the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah. 8 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 and said to them, Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to whom you* sent me to present your* supplication before him: 10 If you* will still abide in this land, then I will build you* and not pull you* down and I will plant you* and not pluck you* up, for I relent of the evil that I have done to you*.
11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you* are afraid. Do not be afraid of him, says Jehovah, for I am with you* to save you* and to deliver you* from his hand. 12 And I will grant you* mercy, that he may have mercy upon you* and cause you* to return to your* own land.
13 But if you* say, We will not dwell in this land, so that you* do not obey the voice of Jehovah your* God, 14 saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread and we will dwell there–
15 Now therefore hear the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah. Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: If you* indeed set your* faces to enter into Egypt and go to journey there, 16 then it will happen, that the sword, which you* fear, will overtake you* there in the land of Egypt and the famine, of which you* are afraid, will follow hard after you* there in Egypt and there you* will die.
17 So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to journey there. They will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
18 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured forth upon you* when you* will enter into Egypt. And you* will be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach. And you* will see this place no more.
19 Jehovah has spoken concerning you*, O remnant of Judah, Go not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have testified to you* this day.
20 For you* made your* own souls go-astray. For you* sent me to Jehovah your* God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God and according to all that Jehovah our God will say, so declare to us and we will do it. 21 And I have this day declared it to you*. But you* have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your* God in anything for which he has sent me to you*.
22 Now therefore know certainly that you* will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, in the place where you* desire to go to journey there.