1加利亚的儿子约哈难、何沙雅的儿子耶撒尼亚和其他将领及各阶层的民众前来，2对耶利米先知说：“求你答应我们的恳求，为我们这些余民向我们的上帝耶和华祈求。你也看见了，我们本来人数众多，现在却寥寥无几。3愿你的上帝耶和华指示我们该去哪里，该做什么。”4耶利米先知说：“好。我必照你们说的向你们的上帝耶和华祈求，并把祂的话毫不隐瞒地告诉你们。”5他们说：“倘若我们不照你的上帝耶和华说的去做，愿诚实可靠的耶和华作证指控我们！6不论我们的上帝耶和华说什么，我们都愿意听从。我们若听祂的话，就必亨通。”7十天之后，耶和华的话传给了耶利米。8耶利米便召集加利亚的儿子约哈难和众将领及各阶层的民众，9对他们说：“你们让我向以色列的上帝耶和华祈求，耶和华这样说，10‘如果你们留在这地方，我必扶持你们，决不毁灭你们；我必栽培你们，决不铲除你们。因为我为降在你们身上的灾祸而难过。11不要惧怕巴比伦王，不要怕他，因为我必与你们同在，拯救你们脱离他的权势。这是耶和华说的。12我必怜悯你们，也要让他怜悯你们，使你们重归故土。’13然而，如果你们不听你们的上帝耶和华的话，不留在这地方，14非要去埃及住，以为那里没有战争，听不见号角声，也不会忍饥挨饿，15那么，你们这些犹大的余民就要听听耶和华的话。以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说，‘如果你们决意去埃及住，16你们所害怕的战争和饥荒必紧紧地跟着你们。你们必死在埃及。17凡决意去埃及住的人必要死于战争、饥荒和瘟疫，无人能逃脱我降的灾祸。’18“以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说，‘我曾把烈怒倾倒在耶路撒冷人身上，如果你们去埃及，我也要把我的怒气倾倒在你们身上。你们的下场将很可怕，被人责骂、咒诅和羞辱，再也见不到故土。’19犹大的余民啊，耶和华已告诉你们不要去埃及。别忘了我今日给你们的警告，20你们是在自欺，因为原是你们请我去向我们的上帝耶和华祈求，让我毫不隐瞒地把祂的话告诉你们，你们也答应遵行。21今日，我把你们上帝耶和华的话告诉了你们，你们却不听从。22因此，你们要清楚知道，你们如果决意去埃及住，必死于战争、饥荒和瘟疫。”
English Standard Version
Warning Against Going to Egypt
1Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—3that the Lord your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.”4Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request, and whatever the Lord answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you.”5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to us.6Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”7At the end of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.8Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,9and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him:10If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.11Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the Lord, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.13But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the Lord your God14and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’15then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,16then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die.17All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.18“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 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 go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.19The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day20that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’21And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.22Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
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