Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
Jeremiah 42:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The LORD has spoken concerning you, remnant of Yehudah, Don't you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go to Egypt. Know for a certainty that I [Jeremiah] have warned and testified to you this day American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day. Common English Bible You who survive from Judah, the LORD has told you: Don’t go to Egypt. Know without a doubt that I have warned you this day. Catholic Public Domain Version This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O remnant of Judah: Do not choose to enter into Egypt, for certainly you understand what I have sworn to you this day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have adjured you this day. |
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
The watchman said, *The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.*
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, *Save yourselves from this crooked generation!*
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.