Jeremiah 42:10-18

‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,  and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.  Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon  whom you now fear; don’t be afraid of him’ — this is the LORD’s declaration — ‘because I am with you to save you  and rescue you from him. I will grant you compassion,  and he  will have compassion on you and allow you to return to your own soil.’ “But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’  in order to disobey the LORD your God, and if you say, ‘No, instead we’ll go to the land of Egypt  where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn  or hunger for food, and we’ll live there,’ then hear the word of the LORD, remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel,  says: ‘If you are firmly resolved to go to Egypt  and stay there for a while, then the sword  you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels  there to Egypt, and you will die there. All who resolve to go to Egypt to stay there for a while will die by the sword, famine, and plague. They will have no survivor or fugitive from the disaster I will bring on them.’ “For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents,  so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn,  execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’