9. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says, the God of Israel to whom you sent me to bring your petition before Him:
10. ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.
11. Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you now fear; don’t be afraid of him’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘because I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.
12. I will grant you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and allow you to return to your own soil.
13. But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ so as not to obey the voice of the Lord your God,