Jeremiah 42:15-22

English Standard Version

¹⁵then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)If you set your faces to enter Egypt ^(B)and go to live there, ¹⁶then the sword ^(C)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, ^(D)and there you shall die. ¹⁷All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have ^(E)no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.

¹⁸“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(F)As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. ^(G)You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more. ¹⁹The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ^(H)‘Do not go to Egypt.’ ^(I)Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day ²⁰that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. ^(J)For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ^(K)‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and ^(L)whatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’ ²¹And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything ^(M)that he sent me to tell you. ²²^(N)Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”