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chapter 42
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Then
all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Jezonias
the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from the least to the greatest
came near:
2 And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our
supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all
this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
3 And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we
may walk, and the thing that we must do.
4 And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard
you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and
whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide
nothing from you.
5 And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness
between us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for
which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
6 Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of
the Lord our God, to whom me send thee: that it may be well with us when we
shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.
7 Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias.
8 And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the
captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the
least to the greatest.
9 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of
Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:
10 If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will
build you up, and not pull you down: I will plane you, and not pluck you up:
for now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.
11 Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you
are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save
you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12 And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity
on you, and will cause you to dwell in your own land.
13 But if you say: We will not dwell in this ]and,
neither will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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