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Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands, and done according to all that he commanded you,

therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not have a man cut off from standing before Me always."'"

Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Please pray to Yahweh our God on our behalf."

"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, the military force of Pharaoh which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If you will indeed go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will live.

"Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for calamity and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

And the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "Yahweh your God promised this calamity against this place;

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our supplication come before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, that is for all this remnant, because we remain but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

that Yahweh your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do."

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which Yahweh will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you."

And they said to Jeremiah, "May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which Yahweh your God will send you to us.

Whether it is good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God to whom we are sending you, so that good may come to us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God."

and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him:

But if you are going to say, "We will not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,

then now, listen to the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your face to enter Egypt, and you will enter to sojourn there,

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more."

For you have only led yourselves astray; for it is you who sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, "Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, tell us so, and we will do it."

So I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, even according to all that He has sent me to tell you.

But it happened that as soon as Jeremiah, whom Yahweh their God had sent, had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God—that is, all these words—

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are speaking a lie! Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to sojourn there';