Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the (A)Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole [a]message with which the Lord your God will send you to us. Whether it is [b]pleasant or [c]unpleasant, we will (B)listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go (C)well for us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

Now at the (D)end of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

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Footnotes

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

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true(A) and faithful(B) witness(C) 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(D) with us, for we will obey(E) the Lord our God.”

Ten days later the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

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