24:042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them,
I have heard you;
behold,
I will pray unto the lord your God according to
your
words;
and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the
lord
shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will
keep
nothing
back from you.
24:042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, The lord
be a true and faithful
witness
between us, if we do not even according to all things
for
the which the lord thy God shall send thee to
us.
24:042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil,
we will obey the
voice
of the lord our God, to whom we send thee; that
it may
be
well with us, when we obey the voice of the lord
our God.
24:042:007 And it came to pass after ten days, that
the word of the lord
came
unto Jeremiah.
24:042:008 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,
24:042:009 And said unto them, Thus saith the lord,
the God of Israel,
unto
whom ye sent me to present your supplication before
him;
24:042:010 If ye 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 unto you.
24:042:011 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of
whom ye are afraid;
be
not afraid of him, saith the lord: for I
am with you to
save
you, and to deliver you from his hand.
24:042:012 And I will shew mercies unto you, that
he may have mercy upon
you,
and cause you to return to your own land.
24:042:013 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this
land, neither obey
the
voice of the lord your God,
24:042:014 Saying, No; but we will go into the land
of Egypt, where we
shall
see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor
have
hunger
of bread; and there will we dwell:
24:042:015 And now therefore hear the word of the
lord, ye remnant of
Judah;
Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
If ye
wholly
set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
there;
24:042:016 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword,
which ye feared,
shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine,
whereof
ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there
in
Egypt;
and there ye shall die.
24:042:017 So shall it be with all the men that set
their faces to go
into
Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword,
by
the
famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them
shall
remain
or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.


