"You are telling a lie ..." (Je 43:2 ESV)

Poor Jeremiah.
The people are desperate for help, but only because they're desperate. They are interested in God's answers, but only because they have no other alternatives.
They say "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do. ... Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God." (Je 42:2-6 ESV), but they don't "Bear fruits in keeping with repentance" (Lk 3:8 ESV).

The answer God gives them is interesting.
He says, "If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you." (Je 42:10 ESV). God had punished Judah because they were Horrible! Yet, he was sorrowful for what had to happen. It's what every son hears his father say right before a whipping: "This hurts me more than it hurts you".

Did the Israelites have any respect for the honest and open offer God made?
No.
Did the Israelites realize what God was offering to them?
No.
Had God made a poor decision when "whipped" the Israelites with the Babylonians?
No, and this story makes that obvious.

How did the Israelites respond to God's offer? "Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there, but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon." (Je 43:2-3 ESV). They knew that they could not deny God, so they merely denied that this was a message from God.

I think it's cowardly to dismiss God's word because of how it is delivered: Preachers, books, lessons, translations, etc. God has provided enough information for us to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God" (1Jn 4:1 ESV). But if you're bent on dismissing God's commands (Hell Bent), you will be desperate for an "out".

Listen quietly to God's word. Honestly consider that the creator of our universe deserves this attention. Respect what he has instructed you to do and do it. Don't be a coward and back out.