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And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard. Look, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God according to your words, and then[a] all the words[b] that Yahweh answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word.” Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be against us as a true and faithful witness[c] if we do not do according to all the words[d] that Yahweh sends you for us. Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 42:4 Literally “and it will happen”
  2. Jeremiah 42:4 Hebrew “word”
  3. Jeremiah 42:5 Literally “a witness of faithfulness and trustworthy”
  4. Jeremiah 42:5 Hebrew “word”

“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray(A) to the Lord your God as you have requested; I will tell(B) you everything the Lord says and will keep nothing back from you.”(C)

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true(D) and faithful(E) witness(F) against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the Lord your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well(G) with us, for we will obey(H) the Lord our God.”

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