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Jeremiah 42:12
I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
Jeremiah 42:12 · World English Bible
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Jeremiah 42:12 in other translations
And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’
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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In context
9 and said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says:
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.
11 Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the LORD, ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
13 “‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land,” so that you don’t obey the LORD your God’s voice,
14 saying, “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 we will dwell;”’
15 now therefore hear the LORD’s word, O remnant of Judah! The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there,
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