Source: R.H. Charles translation (1913, public domain)
1'Are these the commands which thy companion, Jeremiah the prophet, commanded you, and said unto you:
2"Look to this people till I go and make ready the rest of the brethren in Babylon against whom has gone forth the sentence that they should be led into captivity"?
3And now if you also forsake us, it were good for us all to die before thee, and then that you should withdraw from us.'