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Jeremiah 44
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The Lord’s Message to the Israelites in Egypt

44The LORD spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country.H1697H3414H3064H3427H776H4714H3427H4024H8471H5297H776H6624H559
2The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, said, "You yourselves have seen the destruction I brought on Jerusalem and all the other cities of Judah. Even now they are still in ruins, and no one lives in themH559H3068H6635H430H3478H7200H7451H935H3389H5892H3063H3117H2723H3427
3because their people had done evil and had made me angry. They offered sacrifices to other gods and served gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever worshiped.H6440H7451H6213H3707H3212H6999H5647H312H430H3045H1
4I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H559H6213H8441H1697H8130
5But you would not listen or pay any attention. You would not give up your evil practice of sacrificing to other gods.H8085H5186H241H7725H7451H6999H312H430
6So I poured out my anger and fury on the towns of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem, and I set them on fire. They were left in ruins and became a horrifying sight, as they are today.H2534H639H5413H1197H5892H3063H2351H3389H2723H8077H3117
7"And so I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, now ask why you are doing such an evil thing to yourselves. Do you want to bring destruction on men and women, children and babies, so that none of your people will be left?H559H3068H430H6635H430H3478H6213H1419H7451H5315H3772H376H802H5768H3243H8432H3063H3498H7611
8Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?H3707H4639H3027H6999H312H430H776H4714H935H1481H3772H7045H2781H1471H776
9Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their wives, and by you and your wives?H7911H7451H1H7451H4428H3063H7451H802H7451H7451H802H6213H776H3063H2351H3389
10But to this day you have not humbled yourselves. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.H1792H3117H3372H1980H8451H2708H5414H6440H6440H1
11"So then, I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will turn against you and destroy all Judah.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7760H6440H7451H3772H3063
12As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small, will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.H3947H7611H3063H7760H6440H935H776H4714H1481H8552H5307H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H4191H6996H1419H2719H7458H423H8047H7045H2781
13I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem - with war, starvation, and disease.H6485H3427H776H4714H6485H3389H2719H7458H1698
14None of the people of Judah who are left and have come to Egypt to live will escape or survive. Not one of them will return to Judah, where they long to live once again. No one will return except a few refugees."H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H6412H8300H7725H776H3063H5375H5315H7725H3427H7725H6405
15Then all the men who knew that their wives offered sacrifices to other gods, and all the women who were standing there, including the Israelites who lived in southern Egypt - a large crowd in all - said to me,H582H3045H802H6999H312H430H802H5975H1419H6951H5971H3427H776H4714H6624H6030H3414H559
16"We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of the LORD.H1697H1696H8034H3068H8085
17We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.H6213H6213H1697H3318H6310H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H1H4428H8269H5892H3063H2351H3389H7646H3899H2896H7200H7451
18But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation."H2308H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H2637H8552H2719H7458
19And the women added, "When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing."H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H3561H6087H5258H5262H1107H582
20Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way,H3414H559H5971H1397H802H5971H1697H6030H559
21"As for the sacrifices which you and your ancestors, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land offered in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem - do you think that the LORD did not know about them or that he forgot them?H7002H6999H5892H3063H2351H3389H1H4428H8269H5971H776H3068H2142H5927H3820
22This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight, and people use its name as a curse because the LORD could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.H3068H3201H5375H6440H7455H4611H6440H8441H6213H776H2723H8047H7045H3427H3117
23This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against the LORD by not obeying all his commands."H6440H834H6999H2398H3068H8085H6963H3068H1980H8451H2708H5715H7451H7122H3117
24I told all the people, especially the women, what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, was saying to the people of Judah living in Egypt: "Both you and your wives have made solemn promises to the Queen of Heaven.H3414H559H5971H802H8085H1697H3068H3063H776H4714
25You promised that you would offer sacrifices to her and pour out wine offerings to her, and you have kept your promises. Very well, then! Keep your promises! Carry out your vows!H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H802H1696H6310H4390H3027H559H6213H6213H5088H5087H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6965H6965H5088H6213H6213H5088
26But now listen to the vow that I, the LORD, have made in my mighty name to all you Israelites in Egypt: Never again will I let any of you use my name to make a vow by saying, 'I swear by the living Sovereign LORD!'H8085H1697H3068H3063H3427H776H4714H7650H1419H8034H559H3068H8034H7121H6310H376H3063H776H4714H559H136H3069H2416
27I will see to it that you will not prosper, but will be destroyed. All of you will die, either in war or of disease, until not one of you is left.H8245H7451H2896H376H3063H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H3615
28But a few of you will escape death and return from Egypt to Judah. Then the survivors will know whose words have come true, mine or theirs.H4962H4557H6412H2719H7725H776H4714H776H3063H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H3045H1697H6965
29I, the LORD, will give you proof that I will punish you in this place and that my promise to bring destruction on you will come true.H226H5002H3068H6485H4725H3045H1697H6965H6965H7451
30I will hand over King Hophra of Egypt to his enemies who want to kill him, just as I handed over King Zedekiah of Judah to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, who was his enemy and wanted to kill him."H559H3068H5414H6548H4428H4714H3027H341H3027H1245H5315H5414H6667H4428H3063H3027H5019H4428H894H341H1245H5315


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