JER-44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews
which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at
Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
JER-44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye
have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and
upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [are] a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
JER-44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed
to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and]
to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor
your fathers.
JER-44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this
abominable thing that I hate.
JER-44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
JER-44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine 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 at this day.
JER-44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts,
the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against
your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and
suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
JER-44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your
hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,
whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off,
and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the
nations of the earth?
JER-44:9 Have ye 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 have committed in the land of Judah, and in
the streets of Jerusalem?
JER-44:10 They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither
have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that
I set before you and before your fathers.
JER-44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to
cut off all Judah.
JER-44:12 And I 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, [and] fall in the land of Egypt;
they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine:
they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the
sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and]
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
JER-44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence:
JER-44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain,
that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which
they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall
return but such as shall escape.
JER-44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had
burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by,
a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
JER-44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
JER-44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth
out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto 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.
JER-44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted
all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine.
JER-44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and
poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to
worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our
men?
JER-44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men,
and to the women, and to all the people which had given him
[that] answer, saying,
JER-44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings,
and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD
remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?
JER-44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the
evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye
have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
JER-44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have
sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the
LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
this day.
JER-44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all
the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in
the land of Egypt:
JER-44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our
vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely
accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
JER-44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that
dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The
Lord GOD liveth.
JER-44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for
good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be
an end of them.
JER-44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return
out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the
remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or
theirs.
JER-44:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD,
that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my
words shall surely stand against you for evil:
JER-44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra
king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of
them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that
sought his life.
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