Jeremiah 42:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² I will show mercies to you so that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.

¹³ “But if you say, ‘We will not dwell in this land,’ so as not to obey the voice of the Lord your God, ¹⁴ 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 have hunger for bread, and there we will dwell,’