Read Jeremiah 44

World English Bible · 30 verses

1. ¹ The 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ However 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ “Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ They 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.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ “Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ For 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;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Then 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone 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 we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ The women said, “When 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?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ “The 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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘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.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ “‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ Yahweh says, ‘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, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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