10 ‘If you will still remain in this land, then ^aI will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up. For I ^brelent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.  ‡

11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,’ says the Lord, ^a‘for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.  ‡

13 “But if ^ayou say, ‘We will not dwell in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the Lord your God,  ‡

14 saying, ‘No, but we will go to the land of ^aEgypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell’—  ‡