10‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
11Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.
12And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’
13But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,
— Jeremiah 42:10-13