If you people who remain in Judah do that, then listen to what the <sc>Lordsc> says. The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8216;If you are so determined<n id="2" /> to go to Egypt that you go and settle there,

All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.&#8217;

Then Azariah<n id="1" /> son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, &#8220;You are telling a lie! The <sc>Lordsc> our God did not send you to tell us, &#8216;You must not go to Egypt and settle there.&#8217;

That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing.<n id="1" /> You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses<n id="2" /> and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.<n id="3" />

None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then all the men who were aware that their wives were sacrificing to other gods, as well as all their wives, answered Jeremiah. There was a great crowd of them representing all the people who lived in northern and southern Egypt.<n id="1" /> They answered,

I, the <sc>Lordsc>, promise that<n id="1" /> I will hand Pharaoh Hophra<n id="2" /> king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">He spoke about Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt which was encamped along the Euphrates River at Carchemish. Now this was the army that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling<n id="1" /> over Judah.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8220;I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes.<n id="2" /> I will punish Egypt, its gods, and its kings. I will punish Pharaoh and all who trust in him.<n id="3" />

For<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="2" /> says, &#8216;If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem.<n id="3" /> You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.<n id="4" /> You will never see this place again.&#8217;<n id="5" />p>