iver you from his hand.

42:12. And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and
will cause you to dwell in your own land.

42:13. But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we
hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,

42:14. Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we shall
see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and
there we will dwell.

42:15. For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus
saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go
into Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:

42:16. The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of
Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in
Egypt, and there you shall die.

42:17. And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell
there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of
them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will
bring upon them.

42:18. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger
and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you
shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place
no more.

42:19. This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of
Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this
day.

42:20. For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord
our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all
that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will
do it.

42:21. And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not
obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for
which he hath sent me to you.

42:22. Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and
by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to
dwell there.

Jeremias Chapter 43

The Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt,
carrying Jeremias with them. He foretells the devastation of that land
by the king of Babylon.

43:1. And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of
speaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which
the Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words: