Jeremiah 42

New American Standard Bible

Warning against Going to Egypt

42 Then all the commanders of the forces, ^(A)Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people ^(B)from the small to the great approached ²and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our ^(C)pleading ^[a]come before you, and ^(D)pray for us to the Lord your God for all this remnant—since we have been left only a ^(E)few out of many, just as your own eyes now see us— ³that the Lord your God will tell us the ^(F)way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.” ⁴Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to ^(G)pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole ^[b]message which the ^(H)Lord gives you as an answer. I will ^(I)not withhold a word from you.” ⁵Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the ^(J)Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole ^[c]message with which the Lord your God will send you to us. ⁶Whether it is ^[d]pleasant or ^[e]unpleasant, we will ^(K)listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go ^(L)well for us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

⁷Now at the ^(M)end of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. ⁸Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people from the small to the great, ⁹and said to them, “This is what the Lord ^(N)says, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea before Him: ¹⁰‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will ^(O)build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I ^[f]will ^(P)relent of the disaster that I have inflicted on you. ¹¹^(Q)Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares the Lord, ‘for ^(R)I am with you to save you and rescue you from his hand. ¹²I will also show you compassion, so that ^(S)he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil. ¹³But if you are going to say, “We will ^(T)not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God, ¹⁴saying, “No, but we will ^(U)go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or ^(V)hear the sound of a trumpet, or hunger for bread, and we will stay there”; ¹⁵then ^[g]in that case listen to the word of the Lord, you remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “If you really set your ^[h]minds to enter ^(W)Egypt and go in to reside there, ¹⁶then the ^(X)sword, of which you are afraid, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there. ¹⁷So all the people who set their ^[i]minds to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the ^(Y)sword, by famine, or by plague; and they will ^(Z)have no refugees or survivors from the disaster that I am going to bring on them.”’”

¹⁸For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “As My ^(AA)anger and wrath have gushed out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will gush out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a ^(AB)curse, an object of horror, ^[j]an imprecation, and a disgrace; and ^(AC)you will not see this place again.” ¹⁹The Lord has spoken to you, you remnant of Judah, “Do not ^(AD)go to Egypt!” You ^(AE)know for certain that I have ^(AF)admonished you today. ²⁰For you have only ^[k]^(AG)deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord our God; and whatever the Lord our God says, tell us so, and we will do it.” ²¹So I have ^(AH)told you today, but you have ^(AI)not ^[l]obeyed the Lord your God in whatever He has sent me to tell you. ²²And now you shall know for certain that you will ^(AJ)die by the sword, by famine, or by plague in the ^(AK)place where you desire to go to reside.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 42:2 Lit fall
Jeremiah 42:4 Lit word
Jeremiah 42:5 Lit word
Jeremiah 42:6 Lit good
Jeremiah 42:6 Lit evil
Jeremiah 42:10 Or shall have changed my mind about
Jeremiah 42:15 Lit now therefore
Jeremiah 42:15 Lit face
Jeremiah 42:17 Lit face
Jeremiah 42:18 Lit a curse-formula
Jeremiah 42:20 Or acted errantly in your souls
Jeremiah 42:21 Lit listened to the voice of

Psalm 18

New American Standard Bible

The Lord Praised for Rescuing David.

For the music director. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, ^[a]who spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day that the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,

18 “I love You, Lord, ^(A)my strength.”
²The Lord is ^(B)my rock and ^(C)my fortress and my ^(D)savior,
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My ^(E)shield and the ^(F)horn of my salvation, my ^(G)stronghold.
³I call upon the Lord, who is ^(H)worthy to be praised,
And I am ^(I)saved from my enemies.

⁴The ^(J)ropes of death encompassed me,
And the ^(K)torrents of ^[b]destruction ^[c]terrified me.
⁵The ^(L)ropes of ^[d]Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
⁶In my ^(M)distress I called upon the Lord,
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice ^(N)from His temple,
And my ^(O)cry for help before Him came into His ears.

⁷Then the ^(P)earth shook and quaked;
And the ^(Q)foundations of the mountains were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.
⁸Smoke went up ^[e]out of His nostrils,
And ^(R)fire from His mouth was devouring;
Coals burned from it.
⁹He also ^(S)bowed the heavens down low, and came down
With thick ^(T)darkness under His feet.
¹⁰He rode on a ^(U)cherub and flew;
And He sped on the ^(V)wings of the wind.
¹¹He made ^(W)darkness His hiding place, ^(X)His ^[f]canopy around Him,
Darkness of waters, thick clouds.
¹²From the ^(Y)brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and ^(Z)coals of fire.
¹³The Lord also ^(AA)thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴He ^(AB)sent out His arrows, and scattered them,
And lightning flashes in abundance, and ^[g]routed them.
¹⁵Then the ^(AC)channels of water appeared,
And the foundations of the world were exposed
By Your ^(AD)rebuke, Lord,
At the blast of the ^(AE)breath of Your nostrils.

¹⁶He ^(AF)sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of ^(AG)many waters.
¹⁷He ^(AH)saved me from my strong enemy,
And from those who hated me, for they were ^(AI)too mighty for me.
¹⁸They confronted me in ^(AJ)the day of my disaster,
But ^(AK)the Lord was my support.
¹⁹He also brought me out into an ^(AL)open place;
He rescued me, because ^(AM)He delighted in me.

²⁰The Lord has ^(AN)rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the ^(AO)cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
²¹For I have ^(AP)kept the ways of the Lord,
And have ^(AQ)not acted wickedly against my God.
²²For all ^(AR)His judgments were before me,
And I did not put away His ^(AS)statutes from me.
²³I was also ^[h]^(AT)blameless with Him,
And I ^(AU)kept myself from my wrongdoing.
²⁴Therefore the Lord has ^(AV)repaid me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

²⁵With ^(AW)the faithful You show Yourself faithful;
With the ^[i]blameless ^(AX)You prove Yourself blameless;
²⁶With the pure You show Yourself ^(AY)pure,
And with the crooked ^(AZ)You show Yourself ^[j]astute.
²⁷For You ^(BA)save an afflicted people,
But You humiliate ^(BB)haughty eyes.
²⁸For You ^(BC)light my lamp;
The Lord my God ^(BD)illumines my darkness.
²⁹For by You I can ^(BE)run at a ^[k]troop of warriors;
And by my God I can ^(BF)leap over a wall.

³⁰As for God, His way is ^[l]^(BG)blameless;
The ^(BH)word of the Lord is refined;
He is a ^(BI)shield to all who take refuge in Him.
³¹For ^(BJ)who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a ^(BK)rock, except our God,
³²The God who ^(BL)encircles me with strength,
And ^[m]makes my way ^[n]^(BM)blameless?
³³He ^(BN)makes my feet like deer’s feet,
And ^(BO)sets me up on my high places.
³⁴He ^(BP)trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can ^(BQ)bend a bow of bronze.
³⁵You have also given me ^(BR)the shield of Your salvation,
And Your ^(BS)right hand upholds me;
And ^(BT)Your ^[o]gentleness makes me great.
³⁶You ^(BU)enlarge my steps under me,
And my ^[p]^(BV)feet have not slipped.

³⁷I ^(BW)pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back ^(BX)until they were consumed.
³⁸I shattered them, so that they were ^(BY)not able to rise;
They fell ^(BZ)under my feet.
³⁹For You have ^(CA)encircled me with strength for battle;
You have forced those who rose up against me ^(CB)to bow down under me.
⁴⁰You have also made my enemies ^(CC)turn their backs to me,
And I ^[q]^(CD)destroyed those who hated me.
⁴¹They cried for help, but there was ^(CE)no one to save,
They cried to the Lord, but ^(CF)He did not answer them.
⁴²Then I beat them fine like the ^(CG)dust before the wind;
I emptied them out like the mud of the streets.

⁴³You have rescued me from the ^(CH)contentions of the people;
You have placed me as ^(CI)head of the nations;
A ^(CJ)people whom I have not known serve me.
⁴⁴As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners ^(CK)pretend to obey me.
⁴⁵Foreigners ^(CL)lose heart,
And ^(CM)come trembling out of their ^[r]fortresses.

⁴⁶The Lord ^(CN)lives, and blessed be ^(CO)my rock;
And exalted be ^(CP)the God of my salvation,
⁴⁷The God who ^(CQ)executes vengeance for me,
And ^(CR)subdues peoples under me.
⁴⁸He ^(CS)rescues me from my enemies;
You indeed ^(CT)lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from a ^(CU)violent man.
⁴⁹Therefore I will ^(CV)give thanks to You among the nations, Lord,
And I will ^(CW)sing praises to Your name.
⁵⁰He gives great ^[s]^(CX)salvation to His king,
And shows faithfulness to ^(CY)His anointed,
To David and ^(CZ)his ^[t]descendants forever.