Jeremiah 42:12 BBE

¹⁰  If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

¹¹  Have no fear of the king of Babylon, of whom you are now in fear; have no fear of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to keep you safe and to give you salvation from his hands.

¹²  And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.

¹³  But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

¹⁴  Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;