1. Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

2. and said to JEREMIAH the prophet, "Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

3. that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do."

4. Then JEREMIAH the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you."

5. Then they said to JEREMIAH, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

6. Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."