Then all the captains of the forces, and Yoĥanan the son of Qareaĥ, and Yezanya the son of Hosha῾ya, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, Let now our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us to the Lord thy God, for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes see us: )

that the Lord thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing we may do.

Then Yirmeyahu the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.

Then they said to Yirmeyahu, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not act according to all the things for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.

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.

And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came to Yirmeyahu.

Then he called Yoĥanan the son of Qareaĥ, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

and he said to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Yisra᾽el, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him;

If you will still abide in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent of the evil that I have done to you.

Be not afraid of the king of Bavel, of whom you are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

And I will show mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and let you return to your own land.

But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God,

saying, No; but we will go into the land of Miżrayim, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the shofar, nor have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell:

and now therefore hear the word of the Lord, you remnant of Yehuda; thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; If indeed you set your faces to enter into Miżrayim and go to sojourn there;

then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Miżrayim, and the famine, of which you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Miżrayim; and there you shall die.

And all the men that set their faces to go into Miżrayim to sojourn there 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.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; As my anger and my fury has been poured out upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; so shall my fury be poured out upon you, when you shall enter into Miżrayim: and you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

The Lord has said concerning you, O remnant of Yehuda; Do not go into Miżrayim: know certainly that I have forewarned you this day.

For you have gone astray at peril of your lives, when you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us to the Lord our God; and according to all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor anything for which he has sent me to you.

Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go and to sojourn.