Jeremiah 42:3
Good News Translation
Pray that the LORD our God will show us the way we should go and what we should do."

New Revised Standard Version
Let the LORD your God show us where we should go and what we should do.”

Contemporary English Version
Ask the LORD to tell us where he wants us to go and what he wants us to do."

New American Bible
May the LORD, your God, show us the way we should take and what 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

Deuteronomy 5:26,29 What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live? . . .

1 Kings 8:36 Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people in possession.

Ezra 8:21 And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

Psalm 25:4,5 Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths. . . .

Psalm 27:11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

Psalm 86:11 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

Psalm 143:8-10 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee. . . .

Proverbs 3:6 Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Micah 4:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.

Mark 12:13,14 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should catch him in his words. . . .

Context
Warning Against Going to Egypt
2And they said to Jeremiah the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us. 3And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.4And Jeremiah the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.…
Cross References
Psalm 86:11
Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

Proverbs 3:6
Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

Micah 4:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.

Jeremiah 42:2
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