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Jeremiah 42:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the LORD your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you. "

Jeremiah 42:21

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19 “The LORD has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.

20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

21 I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the LORD your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.

22 Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”

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Jeremiah 42:1

"Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,"

Jeremiah 42:2

"and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,"

Jeremiah 42:3

"that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”"

Jeremiah 42:4

"Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”"

Jeremiah 42:5

"Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to tell us."

Jeremiah 42:6

"Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.”"

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