Jeremiah 42:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Pray that the LORD your God will show us what to do and where to go."

English Standard Version (©2001)
that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
that the LORD your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
that the LORD your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Pray that the LORD your God may inform us as to how we should live and what we should do."

NET Bible (©2006)
Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Let the LORD your God tell us where we should go and what we should do."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That the LORD your God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

American King James Version
That the LORD your God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

American Standard Version
that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.

Darby Bible Translation
that Jehovah thy God may shew us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

English Revised Version
that the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

Webster's Bible Translation
That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

World English Bible
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.'

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk,.... Not the way of their duty as to religious worship, or their moral conversation, which was the way of God's commandments, and had been shown them, and they knew it; but which way they should steer their course for their safety; they had departed from Mizpah of themselves, and had taken up their dwelling at Geruthchimham, in the way to Egypt; whither they had set their faces, and where their hearts were, only they wanted the Lord's sanction for it, pretending they would be directed by him:

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

That the Lord thy God may show us - They all thought there was no safety in Jerusalem or in Judea, and therefore determined to leave the land: but they did not know which might be the safest direction to take; for though they inclined to Egypt, yet they wished to know the mind of God on that point.

Geneva Study Bible

That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may {a} do.

(a) This declares the nature of hypocrites who would know of God's word what they should do, but will not follow it, unless it agrees with that thing which they have purposed to do.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. They consulted God, like many, not so much to know what was right, as wishing Him to authorize what they had already determined on, whether agreeable to His will or not. So Ahab in consulting Micaiah (1Ki 22:13). Compare Jeremiah's answer (Jer 42:4) with Micaiah's (1Ki 22:14).

Jeremiah 42:3 Parallel Commentaries
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Warning against Going to Egypt
1Then 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, 2And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do behold us:) 3That the LORD your God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. …

Psalm 86:11 Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Jeremiah 6:16 This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Micah 4:2 Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.