Jeremiah 44

¹ The wordThe word that came to JeremiahJeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwelldwell in the landland of EgyptEgypt, who dwelldwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at NophNoph, and in the countrycountry of PathrosPathros, saying,

² Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael; Ye have seenseen all the evilevil that I have brought upon JerusalemJerusalem, and upon all the citiescities of JudahJudah; and behold, this dayday they are a desolation, and no man dwellethdwelleth in them.

³ Because of their wickednesswickedness which they have committed to provoke me to angeranger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serveserve other godsgods, whom they knewknew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathersfathers.

⁴ Yet I sentsent to you all my servantsservants the prophetsprophets, risingrising earlyearly and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hatehate.

⁵ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turnturn from their wickednesswickedness, to burn no incense to other godsgods.

⁶ Wherefore my furyfury and my angeranger was poured forth, and was kindled in the citiescities of JudahJudah and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this dayday.

⁷ Therefore now thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD, the GodGod of hosts, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael; Why do ye commit this greatgreat evilevil against your soulssouls, to cut offcut off from you manman and womanwoman, child and sucklingsuckling, out of JudahJudah, to leave you none to remain;

⁸ In that ye provoke me to wrath with the worksworks of your handshands, burning incense to other godsgods in the landland of EgyptEgypt, whither ye are gone to dwell, that ye may cut yourselves off, and that ye may be a cursecurse and a reproachreproach among all the nationsnations of the earthearth?

⁹ Have ye forgottenforgotten the wickednesswickedness of your fathersfathers, and the wickednesswickedness of the kingskings of JudahJudah, and the wickednesswickedness of their wiveswives, and your ownown wickednesswickedness, and the wickednesswickedness of your wiveswives, which they have committed in the landland of JudahJudah, and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem?

¹⁰ They are not humbled even to this dayday, neither have they fearedfeared, nor walkedwalked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set beforebefore you and beforebefore your fathersfathers.

¹¹ Therefore thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael; Behold, I will set my faceface against you for evilevil, and to cut offcut off all JudahJudah.

¹² And I will take the remnant of JudahJudah, that have set their facesfaces to gogo into the landland of EgyptEgypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fallfall in the landland of EgyptEgypt; they shall even be consumed by the swordsword and by the faminefamine: they shall diedie, from the least even to the greatestgreatest, by the swordsword and by the faminefamine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a cursecurse, and a reproachreproach.

¹³ For I will punish them that dwelldwell in the landland of EgyptEgypt, as I have punished JerusalemJerusalem, by the swordsword, by the faminefamine, and by the pestilencepestilence:

¹⁴ So that none of the remnant of JudahJudah, who have gone into the landland of EgyptEgypt, to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should returnreturn into the landland of JudahJudah, to which they have a desire to returnreturn to dwelldwell there: for none shall returnreturn but such as shall escape.

¹⁵ Then all the men who knewknew that their wiveswives had burned incense to other godsgods, and all the womenwomen that stoodstood by, a greatgreat multitude, even all the people that dweltdwelt in the landland of EgyptEgypt, in PathrosPathros, answeredanswered JeremiahJeremiah, saying,

¹⁶ As for the wordthe word that thou hast spokenspoken to usus in the name of the LORDname of the LORD, we will not hearkenhearken to thee.

¹⁷ But we will certainly do whatever thing proceedeth from our own mouthmouth, to burn incense to the queen of heavenheaven, and to pour out drink-offeringsofferings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathersfathers, our kingskings, and our princesprinces, in the citiescities of JudahJudah, and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem: for then we had plenty of provisions, and were wellwell, and sawsaw no evilevil.

¹⁸ But since we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heavenheaven, and to pour out drink-offeringsofferings to her, we have wanted all thingsall things, and have been consumed by the swordsword and by the faminefamine.

¹⁹ And when we burned incense to the queen of heavenheaven, and poured out drink-offeringsofferings to her, did we make for her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offeringsofferings to her, without our men?

²⁰ Then JeremiahJeremiah saidsaid to all the people, to the men, and to the womenwomen, and to all the people who had given him that answeranswer, saying,

²¹ The incense that ye burned in the citiescities of JudahJudah, and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem, ye and your fathersfathers, your kingskings and your princesprinces, and the people of the landland, did not the LORDthe LORD rememberremember them, and came it not into his mind?

²² So that the LORDthe LORD could no longer bearbear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your landland a desolation, and an astonishment, and a cursecurse, without an inhabitant, as at this dayday.

²³ Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORDthe LORD, and have not obeyed the voicevoice of the LORDthe LORD, nor walkedwalked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evilevil hath happened to you, as at this dayday.

²⁴ Moreover, JeremiahJeremiah saidsaid to all the people, and to all the womenwomen, HearHear the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD, all JudahJudah that are in the landland of EgyptEgypt:

²⁵ Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael, saying; Ye and your wiveswives have both spokenspoken with your mouthsmouths, and fulfilled with your handhand, saying, We will surely perform our vowsvows that we have vowedvowed, to burn incense to the queen of heavenheaven, and to pour out drink-offeringsofferings to her: ye will surely accomplish your vowsvows, and surely perform your vowsvows.

²⁶ Therefore hearhear ye the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD, all JudahJudah that dwelldwell in the landland of EgyptEgypt; Behold, I have swornsworn by my greatgreat namename, saithsaith the LORDthe LORD, that my namename shall no more be named in the mouthmouth of any manman of JudahJudah in all the landland of EgyptEgypt, saying, the LORDthe LORD GOD liveth.

²⁷ Behold, I will watch over them for evilevil, and not for goodgood: and all the menmen of JudahJudah that are in the landland of EgyptEgypt shall be consumed by the swordsword and by the faminefamine, until there shall be an end of them.

²⁸ Yet a small number that escape the swordsword shall returnreturn from the landland of EgyptEgypt into the landland of JudahJudah, and all the remnant of JudahJudah, that have gone into the landland of EgyptEgypt to sojourn there, shall knowknow whose wordswords shall stand, mine, or theirs.

²⁹ And this shall be a signsign to you, saithsaith the LORDthe LORD, that I will punish you in this placeplace, that ye may knowknow that my wordswords shall surely standstand against you for evilevil:

³⁰ Thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD; Behold, I will givegive Pharaoh-hophra king of EgyptEgypt into the handhand of his enemiesenemies, and into the handhand of them that seekseek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of JudahJudah into the handhand of Nebuchadrezzar king of BabylonBabylon, his enemyenemy, and that soughtsought his life.