Jeremiah 42:10-16

English Standard Version

¹⁰ If you will remain in this land, ^(A)then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; ^(B)for I relent of the disaster that I did to you. ^11 (C)Do not fear the king of Babylon, ^(D)of whom you are afraid. ^(E)Do not fear him, declares the Lord, ^(F)for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand. ^12 (G)I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land. ^13 (H)But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the Lord your God ¹⁴ and saying, ‘No, ^(I)we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or ^(J)hear the sound of the trumpet or ^(K)be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’ ¹⁵ then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(L)If you set your faces to enter Egypt ^(M)and go to live there, ¹⁶ then the sword ^(N)that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, ^(O)and there you shall die.