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Jeremiah 42
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What You Fear Will Catch Up with You

42All the army officers, led by Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, accompanied by all the people, small and great,H8269H2428H3110H1121H7143H3153H1121H1955H5971H6996H1419H5066 2came to Jeremiah the prophet and said, "We have a request. Please listen. Pray to your GOD for us, what's left of us. You can see for yourself how few we are!H559H3414H5030H8467H5307H6440H6419H3068H430H7611H7604H4592H7235H5869H7200 3Pray that your GOD will tell us the way we should go and what we should do."H3068H430H5046H1870H3212H1697H6213 4Jeremiah the prophet said, "I hear your request. And I will pray to your GOD as you have asked. Whatever GOD says, I'll pass on to you. I'll tell you everything, holding nothing back."H3414H5030H559H8085H6419H3068H430H1697H1697H3068H6030H5046H4513H1697H4513 5They said to Jeremiah, "Let GOD be our witness, a true and faithful witness against us, if we don't do everything that your GOD directs you to tell us.H559H3414H3068H571H539H5707H6213H1697H3068H430H7971 6Whether we like it or not, we'll do it. We'll obey whatever our GOD tells us. Yes, count on us. We'll do it."H2896H7451H8085H6963H3068H430H580H7971H3190H8085H6963H3068H430 7Ten days later GOD's Message came to Jeremiah.H7093H6235H3117H1697H3068H3414 8He called together Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers with him, including all the people, regardless of how much clout they had.H7121H3110H1121H7143H8269H2428H5971H6996H1419 9He then spoke: "This is the Message from GOD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your prayer.H559H559H3068H430H3478H7971H5307H8467H6440 10He says, 'If you are ready to stick it out in this land, I will build you up and not drag you down, I will plant you and not pull you up like a weed. I feel deep compassion on account of the doom I have visited on you.H7725H3427H776H1129H2040H5193H5428H5162H7451H6213 11You don't have to fear the king of Babylon. Your fears are for nothing. I'm on your side, ready to save and deliver you from anything he might do.H3372H6440H4428H894H6440H3373H3372H5002H3068H3467H5337H3027 12I'll pour mercy on you. What's more, he will show you mercy! He'll let you come back to your very own land.'H5414H7356H7355H7725H127 13"But do not say, 'We're not staying around this place,' refusing to obey the command of your GODH559H3427H776H8085H6963H3068H430 14and saying instead, 'No! We're off to Egypt, where things are peaceful—no wars, no attacking armies, plenty of food. We're going to live there.' IfH559H935H776H4714H7200H4421H8085H6963H7782H7456H3899H3427 15what's left of Judah is headed down that road, then listen to GOD's Message. This is what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says: 'If you have determined to go to Egypt and make that your home,H8085H1697H3068H7611H3063H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7760H7760H6440H935H4714H935H1481 16then the very wars you fear will catch up with you in Egypt and the starvation you dread will track you down in Egypt. You'll die there!H2719H3373H5381H776H4714H7458H1672H1692H310H4714H4191 17Every last one of you who is determined to go to Egypt and make it your home will either be killed, starve, or get sick and die. No survivors, not one! No one will escape the doom that I'll bring upon you.'H582H7760H6440H935H4714H1481H4191H2719H7458H1698H8300H6412H6440H7451H935 18"This is the Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: 'In the same way that I swept the citizens of Jerusalem away with my anger and wrath, I'll do the same thing all over again in Egypt. You'll end up being cursed, reviled, ridiculed, and mocked. And you'll never see your homeland again.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H639H2534H5413H3427H3389H2534H5413H935H4714H423H8047H7045H2781H7200H4725 19' "GOD has plainly told you, you leftovers from Judah, 'Don't go to Egypt.' Could anything be plainer? I warn you this dayH3068H1696H7611H3063H935H4714H3045H3045H5749H3117 20that you are living out a fantasy. You're making a fatal mistake. "Didn't you just now send me to your GOD, saying, 'Pray for us to our GOD. Tell us everything that GOD says and we'll do it all'?H8582H5315H7971H3068H430H559H6419H3068H430H3068H430H559H5046H6213 21"Well, now I've told you, told you everything he said, and you haven't obeyed a word of it, not a single word of what your GOD sent me to tell you.H3117H5046H8085H6963H3068H430H7971 22So now let me tell you what will happen next: You'll be killed, you'll starve to death, you'll get sick and die in the wonderful country where you've determined to go and live."H3045H3045H4191H2719H7458H1698H4725H2654H935H1481


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