Jeremiah 42:2-10

2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our 1petition 2come before you, and 3pray for us to the Lord your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a 4few out of many, as your own eyes now see us, 3that the Lord your God may tell us the 5way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.” 4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to 6pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole 7message which the 8Lord will answer you. I will 9not keep back a word from you.” 5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the 10Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole 11message with which the Lord your God will send you to us. 6Whether it is 12pleasant or 13unpleasant, we will 14listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go 15well with us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

7Now at the 16end of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. 8Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the 17commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great, 9and said to them, “Thus 18says the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him: 10‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will 19build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I 20will 21relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.