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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 42
Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the
son of Caree, and Jezonias the son of Osaias, and the
rest of the people from the least to the greatest came
near:
And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication
fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy
God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few
of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we
may walk, and the thing that we must do.
And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard
you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according
to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer
me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing
from you.
And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between
us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according
to every thing for which the Lord thy God shall send
thee to us.
Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of
the Lord our God, to whom me send thee: that it may
be well with us when we shall hearken to the voice of
the Lord our God.
Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.
And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the
captains of the fighting men that were with him, and
all the people from the least to the greatest.
And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of
Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications
before him:
If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will
build you up, and not pull you down: I will plane you,
and not pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the
evil that I have done to you.
Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you
are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for
I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from
his hand.
And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on
you, and will cause you to dwell in your own land.
But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither
will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,
Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where
we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
nor suffer hunger: and there we will dwell.
For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of
Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
If you set your faces to go into Egypt, and enter in
to dwell there:
The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in
the land of Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid,
shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there you shall die.
And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt,
to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine,
and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape
from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against
the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation
be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt,
and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this
place no more.
This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant
of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I
have adjured you this day.
For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me
to the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord
our God, and according to all that the Lord our God
shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will do
it.
And now I have declared it to you this day, and ;you
have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with
regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to
you.
Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the
sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place
to which you desire to go to dwell there. |
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