Jeremiah 42:10

If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will plane you, and not pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

In Context

9And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:

11Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:14And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

Judges 2:18And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

Psalms 102:16And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Jeremiah 18:7I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

Jeremiah 24:6And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will be their God: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 42:8-22

Jeremiah's Address to the People. ( b. c. 588.) 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord , the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant… Read the whole commentary →

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