“Then hear
The word of Yahweh!
O remnant of Judah!
Thus says Yahweh of hosts!
The God of Israel!
‘If you are determined
To enter Egypt,
Go settle there!
Then the sword
That you fear
Shall overtake you there,
In the land of Egypt.
The famine
That you dread
Shall follow close after you
Into Egypt.
There you shall die!
All the people
Who have determined
To go to Egypt
To settle there
Shall die
By the sword,
By famine,
By pestilence.
They shall have
No remnant,
No survivor
From the disaster
That I am bringing upon them.’”
Jeremiah repeats the words of Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel. If they are determined to go to Egypt and settle there, they will die there. The famine that they dread so much will overtake them in Egypt. They will die there by any of the 3 famous ways of sword, famine, or pestilence. They will be no survivors there, nobody to carry on their name. Yahweh would bring disaster on them in Egypt.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 