10 ‘Stay here in this land. If you do, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you. For I am sorry about all the punishment I have had to bring upon you.
11 Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore,’ says the lord. ‘For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power.
12 I will be merciful to you by making him kind, so he will let you stay here in your land.’
13 “But if you refuse to obey the lord your God, and if you say, ‘We will not stay here;
14 instead, we will go to Egypt where we will be free from war, the call to arms, and hunger,’
15 then hear the lord’s message to the remnant of Judah. This is what the lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and live there,
16 the very war and famine you fear will catch up to you, and you will die there.