Jeremiah 42 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The People Ask Jeremiah to Pray

Then all^H3605 the [fn]commanders^H8269 of the military^H2428 forces^H2428, Johanan^H3076 the son^H1121 of Kareah^H7143, Jezaniah^H3153 the son^H1121 of Hoshaiah^H1955, and all^H3605 the people^H5971 both^H4480 small^H6996 and great^H1419 approached^H5066

Jer 42:2

Jer 42:2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication [fn]come before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, that is for all this remnant, because we remain but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

Jer 42:3

Jer 42:3that Yahweh your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.”

Jer 42:4

Jer 42:4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole [fn]message which Yahweh will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you.”

Jer 42:5

Jer 42:5And they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole [fn]message with which Yahweh your God will send you to us.

Jer 42:6

Jer 42:6“Whether it is good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God to whom we are sending you, so that good may come to us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.”

Jer 42:7

Now it happened that at the end^H7093 of ten^H6235 days^H3117 the word^H1697 of Yahweh^H3068 came^H1961 to Jeremiah^H3414.

Jer 42:8

Jer 42:8Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,

Jer 42:9

Jer 42:9and said to them, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him:

Jer 42:10

Jer 42:10‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have [fn]relented of the calamity that I have done against you.

Jer 42:11

Jer 42:11‘Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.

Jer 42:12

Jer 42:12‘I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and return you to your own soil.

Jer 42:13

Jer 42:13‘But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,

Jer 42:14

Jer 42:14saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there,”

Jer 42:15

Jer 42:15then now, listen to the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “If you really set your face to enter Egypt, and you will enter to sojourn there,

Jer 42:16

Jer 42:16then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will [fn]follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.

Jer 42:17

Jer 42:17“So all the men who set their face to go to Egypt to sojourn there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and they will have no survivors or any who escaped from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’”

Jer 42:18

For thus^H3541 says^H559 Yahweh^H3068 of hosts^H6635, the God^H430 of Israel^H3478, “As My anger^H639 and wrath^H2534 have been poured^H5413 out^H5413 on the inhabitants^H3427 of Jerusalem^H3389, so^H3651 My wrath^H2534 will be poured^H5413 out^H5413 on you when you enter^H935 Egypt^H4714. And you will become^H1961 a curse^H423, an object^H8047 of^H8047 horror^H8047, an imprecation^H7045, and a reproach^H2781; and you will see^H7200 this^H2088 place^H4725 no^H3808 more^H5750.”

Jer 42:19

Jer 42:19Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, “Do not go into Egypt!” You should clearly know that today I have testified against you.

Jer 42:20

Jer 42:20For you have only [fn]led yourselves astray; for it is you who sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, “Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, tell us so, and we will do it.”

Jer 42:21

Jer 42:21So I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, even according to all that He has sent me to tell you.

Jer 42:22

Jer 42:22So now, you should clearly know that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn.