Jeremiah 42:22
Good News Translation
So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live."

New Revised Standard Version
Be well aware, then, that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go and settle.”

Contemporary English Version
And so, you will die in Egypt from war, hunger, and disease.

New American Bible
Have no doubt about this: you shall die by the sword, famine, and disease in the place where you want to go and live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.

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Jeremiah 42:17 And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them.

Jeremiah 43:11 And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such as are for the sword, to the sword.

Ezekiel 5:3,4 And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak. . . .

Ezekiel 6:11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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Hosea 9:6 For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

to go and to sojourn.

Context
Warning Against Going to Egypt
21And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to you. 22Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.
Cross References
Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.

Jeremiah 42:17
And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them.

Jeremiah 43:11
And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such as are for the sword, to the sword.

Jeremiah 44:12
And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach.

Ezekiel 6:11
Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 33:27
Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live, they that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the sword: and he that is in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be devoured: and they that are in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence.

Hosea 9:6
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

Jeremiah 42:21
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