“Now 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.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 42 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.