11. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, whom ye are afraid of; be not afraid of him-- an affirmation of Jehovah--for with you [am] I, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12. And I give to you mercies, and he hath pitied you, and caused you to turn back unto your own ground.
13. `And if ye are saying, We do not dwell in this land--not to hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God,
14. saying, No; but the land of Egypt we enter, that we see no war, and the sound of a trumpet do not hear, and for bread be not hungry; and there do we dwell.
15. And now, therefore, hear ye a word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: If ye really set your faces to enter Egypt, and have gone in to sojourn there,
16. then it hath come to pass, the sword that ye are afraid of, doth there overtake you, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which ye are sorrowful, doth there cleave after you in Egypt, and there ye die.
17. `Thus are all the men who have set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there; they die--by sword, by hunger, and by pestilence, and there is not to them a remnant and an escaped one, because of the evil that I am bringing in upon them;