Jeremiah 42:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² I will have compassion on you, and he will then treat you mercifully and allow you to return to your land.

¹³ “ ‘However, if you persist in your stubborn refusal to stay in this land, thereby disobeying the voice of the Lord, your God, ¹⁴ and you say, “We are determined to go to Egypt, where we will not be forced to endure further war or hear the trumpet’s call to battle or be hungry for bread; it is there that we will stay,”