| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Then all the military leaders, Kareah's son Jonathan, Hoshaiah's son Jezaniah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached Jeremiah. | 1Then all the military leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached |
| 2They told Jeremiah the prophet, "Please listen to what we have to ask of you. Pray to the LORD your God for us and for all these survivors. Indeed, only a few of us remain out of many, as you can see. | 2Jeremiah the prophet. They said, “Please pray to the LORD your God for us. As you can see, we are only a tiny remnant compared to what we were before. |
| 3Pray that the LORD your God may inform us as to how we should live and what we should do." | 3Pray that the LORD your God will show us what to do and where to go.” |
| 4Jeremiah the prophet told them, "I've heard, and I'm going to pray to the LORD your God just as you have requested. Whatever the LORD answers, I'll tell you. I won't withhold anything from you." | 4“All right,” Jeremiah replied. “I will pray to the LORD your God, as you have asked, and I will tell you everything he says. I will hide nothing from you.” |
| 5Then they told Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we don't do everything that the LORD your God tells us through you. | 5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD your God be a faithful witness against us if we refuse to obey whatever he tells us to do! |
| 6Whether it seems good or bad, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we send you, so it may go well for us. Indeed, we will obey the LORD our God." | 6Whether we like it or not, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we are sending you with our plea. For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us.” |
| 7At the end of ten days a message from the LORD came to Jeremiah. | 7Ten days later the LORD gave his reply to Jeremiah. |
| 8So he called Kareah's son Jonathan, all the military leaders who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest. | 8So he called for Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders, and for all the people, from the least to the greatest. |
| 9He told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, to whom you sent me to take your request: | 9He said to them, “You sent me to the LORD, the God of Israel, with your request, and this is his reply: |
| 10If you will just remain in this land, I'll build you up and not pull you down. I'll plant you and not uproot you, for I'm sorry about the disaster I've brought on you. | 10‘Stay here in this land. If you do, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you. For I am sorry about all the punishment I have had to bring upon you. |
| 11Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon as you have been. Don't fear him,' declares the LORD, 'because I am with you to save you and deliver you from his control. | 11Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore,’ says the LORD. ‘For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power. |
| 12I'll show you compassion, so he will have compassion on you and return you to your land. | 12I will be merciful to you by making him kind, so he will let you stay here in your land.’ |
| 13But if you disobey the LORD your God by saying, "We won't stay in this land," | 13“But if you refuse to obey the LORD your God, and if you say, ‘We will not stay here; |
| 14and you also say, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we won't see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or hunger for bread, and there we will stay," | 14instead, we will go to Egypt where we will be free from war, the call to arms, and hunger,’ |
| 15then hear this message from the LORD, remnant of Judah: 'This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "If you are really determined to go into Egypt, and you go there to settle, | 15then hear the LORD’s message to the remnant of Judah. This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and live there, |
| 16the sword that you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt. The famine that you dread will pursue you into Egypt, and there you will die. | 16the very war and famine you fear will catch up to you, and you will die there. |
| 17All the people who are determined to go into Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague. No one will survive the disaster that I'll bring on them." | 17That is the fate awaiting every one of you who insists on going to live in Egypt. Yes, you will die from war, famine, and disease. None of you will escape the disaster I will bring upon you there.’ |
| 18For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: 'Just 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 enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.' | 18“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so they will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. And you will never see your homeland again.’ |
| 19The LORD has told you, remnant of Judah, 'Don't go to Egypt!' So be fully aware that I've warned you, today, | 19“Listen, you remnant of Judah. The LORD has told you: ‘Do not go to Egypt!’ Don’t forget this warning I have given you today. |
| 20that you have deceived yourselves. Indeed, you yourselves sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray to the LORD your God for us, and whatever the LORD our God tells us we will do.' | 20For you were not being honest when you sent me to pray to the LORD your God for you. You said, ‘Just tell us what the LORD our God says, and we will do it!’ |
| 21I've told you today, but you haven't obeyed the LORD your God in all that he sent me to tell you. | 21And today I have told you exactly what he said, but you will not obey the LORD your God any better now than you have in the past. |
| 22Now, be fully aware that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague in the place where you want to settle." | 22So you can be sure that you will die from war, famine, and disease in Egypt, where you insist on going.” |
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