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Jeremiah 42:12

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I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

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Jeremiah 42:12 in other translations

And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Jeremiah 42:12 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 42:12 in context

  1. 10‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
  2. 11Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
  3. 12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
  4. 13“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
  5. 14saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’