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hearken to the voice of the Lord our God. that I will bring upon them.
7 Now after ten days, the word of the Lord 18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God
came to Jeremias. of Israel: As my anger and my indignation
8 And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and hath been kindled against the inhabitants of
all the captains of the fighting men that were Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled
with him, and all the people from the least to against you, when you shall enter into Egypt,
the greatest. and you shall be an execration, and an astonish-
9 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord ment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall
the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to see this place no more.
present your supplications before him: 19 This is the word of the Lord concerning
10 If you will be quiet and remain in this land, you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into
I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you
plant you, and not pluck you up: for now I am this day.
appeased for the evil that I have done to you. 20 For you have deceived your own souls: for
11 Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray
whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith for us to the Lord our God, and according to
the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so
deliver you from his hand. declare unto us, and we will do it.
12 And I will shew mercies to you, and will 21 And now I have declared it to you this day,
take pity on you, and will cause you to dwell in and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord
your own land. your God, with regard to all the things for which
13 But if you say: We will not dwell in this he hath sent me to you.
land, neither will we hearken to the voice of the 22 Now therefore know certainly that you
Lord our God, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by
14 Saying: No, but we will go into the land of pestilence in the place to which you desire to go
Egypt: where we shall see no war, nor hear the to dwell there.
sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and
there we will dwell.
15 For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye Chapter 43
remnant of Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go into And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had
Egypt, and enter in to dwell there: made an end of speaking to the people all the
16 The sword which you fear, shall overtake words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord
you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine, their God had sent him to them, all these words:
whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in 2 Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the
Egypt, and there you shall die. son of Caree, and all the proud men, made an-
17 And all the men that set their faces to go swer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the
into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not
and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them into Egypt, to dwell there.
shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil 3 But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee