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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then all the military leaders, Kareah's son Jonathan, Hoshaiah's son Jezaniah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached Jeremiah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They told Jeremiah the prophet, "Please listen to what we have to ask of you. Pray to the LORD your God for us and for all these survivors. Indeed, only a few of us remain out of many, as you can see. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Pray that the LORD your God may inform us as to how we should live and what we should do." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jeremiah the prophet told them, "I've heard, and I'm going to pray to the LORD your God just as you have requested. Whatever the LORD answers, I'll tell you. I won't withhold anything from you." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then they told Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we don't do everything that the LORD your God tells us through you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Whether it seems good or bad, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we send you, so it may go well for us. Indeed, we will obey the LORD our God." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7At the end of ten days a message from the LORD came to Jeremiah. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So he called Kareah's son Jonathan, all the military leaders who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, to whom you sent me to take your request: |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If you will just remain in this land, I'll build you up and not pull you down. I'll plant you and not uproot you, for I'm sorry about the disaster I've brought on you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon as you have been. Don't fear him,' declares the LORD, 'because I am with you to save you and deliver you from his control. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I'll show you compassion, so he will have compassion on you and return you to your land. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But if you disobey the LORD your God by saying, "We won't stay in this land," |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and you also say, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we won't see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or hunger for bread, and there we will stay," |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15then hear this message from the LORD, remnant of Judah: 'This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "If you are really determined to go into Egypt, and you go there to settle, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the sword that you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt. The famine that you dread will pursue you into Egypt, and there you will die. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All the people who are determined to go into Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague. No one will survive the disaster that I'll bring on them." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The LORD has told you, remnant of Judah, 'Don't go to Egypt!' So be fully aware that I've warned you, today, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20that you have deceived yourselves. Indeed, you yourselves sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray to the LORD your God for us, and whatever the LORD our God tells us we will do.' |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I've told you today, but you haven't obeyed the LORD your God in all that he sent me to tell you. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Now, be fully aware that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague in the place where you want to settle." |
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