Jeremiah 42:10-18

¹⁰‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

¹¹Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.

¹²And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’

¹³But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,

¹⁴and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’

¹⁵then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,

¹⁶then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

¹⁷So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

¹⁸For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

— Jeremiah 42:10-18

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Cross References for Jeremiah 42:10-18

• Romans 8:31
• Isaiah 43:2
• Ezekiel 36:36
• Jeremiah 31:28
• Jeremiah 1:8
• Jeremiah 1:19
• Jeremiah 24:6
• Isaiah 43:5
• Psalm 106:45-46
• Joel 2:13

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