Jeremiah 42:12-14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² I will grant you compassion,^(A) and he^[a] 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,”^(B) in order to disobey the Lord your God, ¹⁴ and if you say, “No, instead we’ll go to the land of Egypt^(C) where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn^(D) or hunger for food, and we’ll live there,”