THEN all the captains of the forces, and Yochanon the son of Qareach, and Yezanyahu the son of Husha`yah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
And said unto El-Yirmeyahu the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us unto EL-Yahuah Elohayka, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do behold us:)
That Yahuah Elohayka may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
Then Yirmeyahu the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto EL-Yahuah Elohayka according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing Yahuah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
Then they said to El-Yirmeyahu, Yahuah be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which Yahuah Elohayka shall send you to us.
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahuah Elohaynu, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahuah Elohaynu.
And it came to pass after ten days, that the Word of Yahuah came unto El-Yirmeyahu.
Then called he Yochanon the son of Qareach, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
And said unto them, Thus says Yahuah, the Elohai of Yashar'el, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent of the evil that I have done unto you.
Be not afraid of the king of Babel, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, says Yahuah: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of Yahuah Elohaykem,
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Mitsrayim, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the shofar, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
And now therefore hear the Word of Yahuah, ye remnant of Yahudah; Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Mitsrayim, and go to sojourn there;
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Mitsrayim, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Mitsrayim; and there ye shall die.
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Mitsrayim to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
For thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Mitsrayim: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Yahuah has said concerning you, O ye remnant of Yahudah; Go ye not into Mitsrayim: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto EL-Yahuah Elohaykem, saying, Pray for us unto EL-Yahuah Elohaynu; and according unto all that Yahuah Elohaynu shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Yahuah Elohaykem, nor anything for the which he has sent me unto you.
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.