Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to (A)pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole [a]message which the (B)Lord gives you as an answer. I will (C)not withhold a word from you.” Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the (D)Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole [b]message with which the Lord your God will send you to us. Whether it is [c]pleasant or [d]unpleasant, we will (E)listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go (F)well for us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 42:4 Lit word
  2. Jeremiah 42:5 Lit word
  3. Jeremiah 42:6 Lit good
  4. Jeremiah 42:6 Lit evil

“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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