5. And they have said to Jeremiah, `Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful, if--according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us--we do not so.
6. Whether good or evil, to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we are sending thee, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.'
7. And it cometh to pass, at the end of ten days, that there is a word of Jehovah unto
8. and he calleth unto Johanan son of Kareah, and unto all the heads of the forces that [are] with him, and to all the people, from the least even unto the greatest,
9. and he saith unto them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me, to cause your supplication to fall before Him:
10. `If ye do certainly dwell in this land, then I have builded you up, and I throw not down; and I have planted you, and I pluck not up; for I have repented concerning the evil that I have done to you.
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,