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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, Let, we beseech you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the LORD [Yahweh] your God, [even] for all this remnant; (for we are left [but] a few of many, as your eyes do behold us:)
3 That the LORD [Yahweh] your God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard [you]; behold, I will pray to the LORD [Yahweh] your God according to your words; and it will come to pass, [that] whatever thing the LORD [Yahweh] will answer you, I will declare [it] to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD [Yahweh] be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD [Yahweh] your God will send you to us.
6 Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] our God.
7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to Jeremiah.
8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
9 And said to them, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh], 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 will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done to you.
11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the LORD [Yahweh]: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12 And I will show mercies to you, 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, neither obey the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] 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 there will we dwell:
15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD [Yahweh], you remnant of Judah; Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, the God of Israel; If you wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
16 Then it will come to pass, [that] the sword, which you feared, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which you were afraid, will follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you will die.
17 So will it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn 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 thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so will my fury 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 The LORD [Yahweh] has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Go you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me to the LORD [Yahweh] your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD [Yahweh] our God; and according to all that the LORD [Yahweh] our God will say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].
21 And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] your God, nor any [thing] for the 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 [and] to sojourn.