20 Surely ye [a]dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God, and declare unto us even according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, and we will do it.

21 Therefore I have this day declared it you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor anything for the which he hath sent me unto you.

22 Now therefore, know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence [b]in the place whither ye desire to go and dwell.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 42:20 For ye were fully minded to go into Egypt, whatsoever God spake to the contrary.
  2. Jeremiah 42:22 To wit, in Egypt.

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