to Ieremias the prophet, and they said to him: Let our plea fall before your face, and pray to the Lord your God concerning these who are left, for we are left few out of many, as your own eyes see.
And Ieremias said to them: I have heard. Behold, I will pray to the Lord our God according to your words; and whatever word the Lord answers, I will declare to you; I will not hide a thing from you.
And they themselves said to Ieremias: Let the Lord be among us for a witness, just and faithful, if we do not act according to every word with which the Lord sends you to us — so we will do.
And whether good or whether evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, that it may be better for us; for we will obey the voice of the Lord our God.
If you will indeed settle in this land, I will build you up and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up; for I have ceased from the evils which I did to you.
Do not fear before the face of the king of Babylon, before whose face you are afraid; do not fear, says the Lord, for I am with you, to deliver you and to save you out of his hand.
For we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall not see war, nor shall we hear the sound of a trumpet, nor shall we hunger for bread; and there we will dwell.
then the sword which you fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine which you take thought of shall overtake you behind you in Egypt; and there you shall die.
And all the men and all the foreigners who have set their face to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall perish by the sword and by the famine; and not one of them shall be saved from the evils which I bring upon them.
For thus said the Lord: As my wrath dripped upon those who dwell in Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drip upon you when you enter Egypt; and you shall become a wasteland and subject to others, and a curse and a reproach, and you shall see this place no more.
that you acted wickedly in your souls when you sent me, saying: Pray for us to the Lord, and according to all that the Lord may speak to you, we will do it.