16 Then, if they will really (A)learn the ways of My people, to (B)swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ just as they taught My people to (C)swear by Baal, they will be (D)built up in the midst of My people. 17 But if they do not listen, then I will (E)drive out that nation, drive it out and destroy it,” declares the Lord.

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16 And if they learn(A) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’(B)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal(C)—then they will be established among my people.(D) 17 But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy(E) it,” declares the Lord.

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16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.

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28 (A)Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah [a](B)few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know (C)whose word will stand, Mine or theirs. 29 And this will be the (D)sign to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that (E)My words will assuredly stand against you for harm.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:28 Lit men of number

28 Those who escape the sword(A) and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very few.(B) Then the whole remnant(C) of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand(D)—mine or theirs.(E)

29 “‘This will be the sign(F) to you that I will punish(G) you in this place,’ declares the Lord, ‘so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.’(H)

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28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.

29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

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10 All the (A)sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘(B)The catastrophe will not overtake or confront us.’

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10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,(A)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’(B)

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10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

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