Chapter 42

People ask Jeremiah to inquire what they should do and promise to do it no matter what it is.  They make a great show of saying how they will do as God says no matter what.  The ALL promise to follow what Jeremiah tells them.  Takes 10 days for the answer.  God tells them to stay home, and not fear Babylon further.  God tells them He has relented of the disaster He sent, and that He will build them up, not tear them down, and He will protect them from the King of Babylon.  He tells them if they go to Egypt, all that they fear will happen to them there. There will be famine there, there will be war there, there will be pestilence there.  All the things they fear in Judah will happen to them in Egypt if they go there.  They will die in Egypt and never see home again if they go there.  God, through Jeremiah, is entirely clear on the choices these people have.

vss 17 and 22, sword, famine, pestilence.