Jérémie 42:2

La Bible Ostervald

Et dirent à Jérémie, le prophète: Reçois favorablement notre prière et intercède auprès de l'Éternel ton Dieu pour nous, pour tout ce qui reste! Car, de beaucoup que nous étions, nous sommes restés peu, comme tes yeux le voient.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et dirent à Jérémie le Prophète : que notre supplication soit reçue de toi, et fais requête à l'Eternel ton Dieu pour nous, [savoir] pour tout ce reste-ci; car de beaucoup [de monde que nous étions] nous sommes restés peu, comme tes yeux nous voient;

Darby's French Translation
s'approchèrent et dirent à Jérémie le prophète: Que notre supplication soit reçue devant toi, et prie l'Éternel, ton Dieu, pour nous, pour tout ce reste; car, de beaucoup que nous étions, nous sommes restés peu, selon que tes yeux nous voient;

Louis Segond (1910)
et dirent à Jérémie, le prophète: Que nos supplications soient favorablement reçues devant toi! Intercède en notre faveur auprès de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, en faveur de tous ceux qui restent, car nous étions beaucoup, et nous restons en petit nombre, comme tes yeux le voient;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be accepted before thee: Heb. fall before thee, Jeremiah 36:7, Jeremiah 37:20, *marg.

and pray: Jeremiah 17:15, Jeremiah 17:16, Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 37:3, Exodus 8:28, Exodus 9:28, 1 Samuel 7:8, 1 Samuel 12:19, 1 Samuel 12:23, 1 Kings 13:6, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 37:4, Acts 8:24, James 5:16

left: Leviticus 26:22, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:62, Isaiah 1:9, Lamentations 1:1, Ezekiel 5:3, Ezekiel 5:4, Ezekiel 12:16, Zechariah 13:8, Zechariah 13:9, Matthew 24:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:2 - cried Numbers 12:11 - I beseech thee 1 Kings 12:6 - consulted 1 Kings 22:5 - Inquire 2 Chronicles 10:6 - took counsel 2 Chronicles 18:5 - Shall we go 2 Chronicles 34:21 - that are left Ezra 9:8 - a remnant Isaiah 29:13 - Forasmuch Isaiah 30:2 - and have Isaiah 42:20 - opening Isaiah 58:2 - they ask Jeremiah 27:18 - let them Jeremiah 38:14 - I will Jeremiah 38:26 - General Jeremiah 42:9 - unto Jeremiah 42:20 - Pray Amos 7:2 - for Matthew 22:17 - What Mark 12:14 - Master Luke 20:21 - Master

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And said unto Jeremiah the prophet,.... That is, some one of them, as the mouth of the whole body, very probably Johanan:

let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee; they treat the prophet with great respect, and are very humble and submissive, as if they were very hearty and sincere in their request:

and pray for us unto the Lord thy God; as if they were conscious of their own inability to pray for themselves, and of their unworthiness to call God their God; and as if they had a high opinion of, he prophet, as having an interest in God, and great power with him in prayer, whom he could not well deny anything:

[even] for all this remnant; this poor remnant, this handful of people, left of the sword, famine, and pestilence, left in the land by the Chaldeans, and who had escaped the cruelty of Ishmael; and for whom it might be hoped the Lord would still have a regard, since he had so mercifully and wonderfully preserved them:

for we are left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us; the number of the people had been very large, but by the judgments of the sword, famine, and pestilence, and captivity, they were greatly reduced; here was their whole number before the prophet; his eyes beheld them, and the condition they were in: this they said to move his compassion, and very likely to suggest to him how improbable it was that they should ever be able to continue in their own land; but that it would be better to put themselves under the protection of a neighbouring nation, Egypt, whither they were inclined to go; and hoped to have a word from the Lord by the prophet, to direct them thither.