Jer Jeremiah, chapter Book of Jeremiah, chapter 42
And they come near—all the heads of the forces, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest— and they say to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication fall before you, and pray for us to your God YHWH for all this remnant; for we have been left a few out of many, as your eyes see us; and your God YHWH declares to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.” And Jeremiah the prophet says to them, “I have heard: behold, I am praying to yöur God YHWH according to yöur words, and it has come to pass, the whole word that YHWH answers yöu, I declare to yöu—I do not withhold a word from yöu.” And they have said to Jeremiah, “YHWH is against us for a true and faithful witness, if—according to all the word with which your God YHWH sends you to us—we do not do so. Whether [it is] good or evil, to the voice of our God YHWH, to whom we are sending you, we listen; because it is good for us when we listen to the voice of our God YHWH.” And it comes to pass, at the end of ten days, that there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah, and he calls to Johanan son of Kareah, and to all the heads of the forces that [are] with him, and to all the people, from the least even to the greatest, and he says to them, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel, to whom yöu sent me, to cause yöur supplication to fall before Him: If yöu certainly dwell in this land, then I have built yöu up, and I do not throw down; and I have planted yöu, and I do not pluck up; for I have relented concerning the calamity that I have done to yöu. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom yöu are afraid of; do not be afraid of him—a declaration of YHWH—for I [am] with yöu, to save yöu, and to deliver yöu from his hand. And I give mercies to yöu, and he has pitied yöu, and caused yöu to return to yöur own ground. And if yöu are saying, We do not dwell in this land—not to listen to the voice of yöur God YHWH, saying, No; but we enter the land of Egypt, that we see no war, and do not hear the sound of a horn, and are not hungry for bread; and we dwell there— And now, therefore, hear a word of YHWH, O remnant of Judah! Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: If yöu really set yöur faces to enter Egypt, and have gone to sojourn there, then it has come to pass, the sword that yöu are afraid of, overtakes yöu there, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which yöu are sorrowful, cleaves after yöu there in Egypt, and there yöu die. Thus are all the men who have set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there; they die—by sword, by hunger, and by pestilence, and there is not a remnant and an escaped one to them, because of the calamity that I am bringing in on them; for thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: As My anger and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My fury is poured out on yöu in yöur entering Egypt, and yöu have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and yöu do not see this place anymore. YHWH has spoken against yöu, O remnant of Judah, do not enter Egypt: certainly know that I have testified against yöu today; for yöu have showed yourselves perverse in yöur souls, for yöu sent me to yöur God YHWH, saying, Pray for us to our God YHWH, and according to all that our God YHWH says, so declare to us, and we have done [it]; and I declare to yöu today, and yöu have not listened to the voice of yöur God YHWH, and to anything with which He has sent me to yöu. And now, certainly know that by sword, by famine, and by pestilence yöu die, in the place that yöu have desired to go to sojourn there.”