Jeremiah 42

¹Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Jezonias the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from the least to the greatest came near:

²And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.

³And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.

⁴And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.

⁵And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.

⁶Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom me send thee: that it may be well with us when we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

⁷Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.

⁸And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

⁹And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:

¹⁰If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will plane you, and not pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.