Jeremiah

¹⁷So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’ ¹⁸For the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’ ¹⁹“The Lord has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today. ²⁰For 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.’ ²¹I 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. ²²Now 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 there.”