Jeremiah

⁵Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to tell us. ⁶Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.” ⁷After ten days, the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah. ⁸Then he called Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, ⁹and said to them, “the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says: ¹⁰‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. ¹¹Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the Lord: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.