The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
44: 1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who
lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 44:2Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on
Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man
dwells therein, 44:3because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger,
in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor
you, nor your fathers. 44:4However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate. 44:5But they didn't listen, nor
inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. 44:6Therefore my
wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. 44:7Therefore now thus says Yahweh,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit you this great evil against your own souls, to cut
off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none
remaining; 44:8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to
other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that
you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 44:9Have you forgotten the
wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the
land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 44:10They are not humbled even to this day, neither
have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your
fathers. 44:11Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face
against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. 44:12I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set
their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land
of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die,
from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of
horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 44:13For I will punish those who dwell in
the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence; 44:14so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire
to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape. 44:15Then all the men who
knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great
assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah,
saying, 44:16As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to
you. 44:17But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn
incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and
our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for
then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 44:18But since we left off burning
incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted all things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 44:19When we burned incense to the
queen of the sky, and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her,
and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands? 44:20Then Jeremiah said to all the
people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him who answer,
saying, 44:21The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you
and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh
remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? 44:22so that Yahweh could no longer bear,
because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed;
therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant,
as it is this day. 44:23Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against
Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor
in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day. 44:24Moreover Jeremiah
said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the
land of Egypt: 44:25Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have
both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely
perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink-offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. 44:26Therefore hear the
word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in
all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives. 44:27Behold, I watch over them for evil,
and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the
sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. 44:28Those who escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of
Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand,
mine, or theirs. 44:29This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place,
that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: 44:30Thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand
of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
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