Jeremiah 42:12 DBY

¹⁰  If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not overthrow [you], and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

¹¹  Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid: be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah; for I will be with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

¹²  And I will grant mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

¹³  But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so as not to hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God,

¹⁴  saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell;