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20 that you have made a fatal mistake,[a] for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying,[b] ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God, and all that Yahweh our God says, so tell us and we will do it.’[c] 21 So I have told you today,[d] and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of anything[e] that he sent me for you. 22 Now then, certainly you must know that by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague you will die in the place where you desire to go, to dwell as aliens there.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 42:20 Literally “you have caused them to err for your lives”
  2. Jeremiah 42:20 Literally “to say”
  3. Jeremiah 42:20 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Jeremiah 42:21 Literally “the day”
  5. Jeremiah 42:21 Literally “all”