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Jeremiah 44
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God’s Judgment against His People in Egypt

44[This is] the word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt— at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the land of Pathros:H1697H3414H3064H3427H776H4714H3427H4024H8471H5297H776H6624H559
2"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah's cities; look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in themH559H3068H6635H430H3478H7200H7451H935H3389H5892H3063H3117H2723H3427
3because of their evil ways that provoked Me to anger, going and burning incense to serve other gods they, you, and your fathers did not know.H6440H7451H6213H3707H3212H6999H5647H312H430H3045H1
4So I sent you all My servants the prophets time and time again, saying, Don't do this detestable thing that I hate.H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H559H6213H8441H1697H8130
5But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods.H8085H5186H241H7725H7451H6999H312H430
6So My fierce wrath poured forth and burned in Judah's cities and Jerusalem's streets so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.H2534H639H5413H1197H5892H3063H2351H3389H2723H8077H3117
7"So now, this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, child and infant from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.H559H3068H430H6635H430H3478H6213H1419H7451H5315H3772H376H802H5768H3243H8432H3063H3498H7611
8You are provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands. You are burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live for a while. As a result, you will be cut off and become an object of cursing and insult among all the nations of earth.H3707H4639H3027H6999H312H430H776H4714H935H1481H3772H7045H2781H1471H776
9Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, the evils of Judah's kings, the evils of their wives, your own evils, and the evils of your wives that were committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?H7911H7451H1H7451H4428H3063H7451H802H7451H7451H802H6213H776H3063H2351H3389
10They have not become humble to this day, and they have not feared or walked by My law or My statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.H1792H3117H3372H1980H8451H2708H5414H6440H6440H1
11"Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you to [bring] disaster, to cut off all Judah.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7760H6440H7451H3772H3063
12And I will take away the remnant of Judah, those who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to live there for a while; they will meet their end. All of them in the land of Egypt will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an object of execration, of scorn, of cursing, and of disgrace.H3947H7611H3063H7760H6440H935H776H4714H1481H8552H5307H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H4191H6996H1419H2719H7458H423H8047H7045H2781
13I will punish those living in the land of Egypt just as I punished Jerusalem by sword, famine, and plague.H6485H3427H776H4714H6485H3389H2719H7458H1698
14Then the remnant of Judah— those going to live for a while there in the land of Egypt— will have no fugitive or survivor to return to the land of Judah where they are longing to return to live, for they will not return except [for a few] fugitives."H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H6412H8300H7725H776H3063H5375H5315H7725H3427H7725H6405

The People’s Stubborn Response

15However, all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women standing by— a great assembly— and all the people who were living in the land of Egypt at Pathros answered Jeremiah,H582H3045H802H6999H312H430H802H5975H1419H6951H5971H3427H776H4714H6624H6030H3414H559
16"As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you!H1697H1696H8034H3068H8085
17Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in Judah's cities and in Jerusalem's streets. Then we had enough food and good things and saw no disaster,H6213H6213H1697H3318H6310H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H1H4428H8269H5892H3063H2351H3389H7646H3899H2896H7200H7451
18but from the time we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to offer her drink offerings, we have lacked everything, and through sword and famine we have met our end."H2308H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H2637H8552H2719H7458
19And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands' knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H3561H6087H5258H5262H1107H582
20But Jeremiah responded to all the people— the men, women, and all the people who were answering him— saying,H3414H559H5971H1397H802H5971H1697H6030H559
21"As for the incense you burned in Judah's cities and in Jerusalem's streets— you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land— did the LORD not remember them? He brought this to mind.H7002H6999H5892H3063H2351H3389H1H4428H8269H5971H776H3068H2142H5927H3820
22The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as [you see] today.H3068H3201H5375H6440H7455H4611H6440H8441H6213H776H2723H8047H7045H3427H3117
23Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and didn't obey the LORD's voice and didn't walk in His law, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has come to you, as [you see] today."H6440H834H6999H2398H3068H8085H6963H3068H1980H8451H2708H5715H7451H7122H3117
24Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt.H3414H559H5971H802H8085H1697H3068H3063H776H4714
25This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'As for you and your wives, you women have spoken with your mouths, and you men fulfilled it by your deeds, saying: We will keep our vows we have made to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings for her. [Go ahead,] confirm your vows! Pay your vows!'H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H802H1696H6310H4390H3027H559H6213H6213H5088H5087H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6965H6965H5088H6213H6213H5088
26"Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: 'I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that My name will never again be invoked by anyone of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord God lives.H8085H1697H3068H3063H3427H776H4714H7650H1419H8034H559H3068H8034H7121H6310H376H3063H776H4714H559H136H3069H2416
27I am watching over them for disaster and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.H8245H7451H2896H376H3063H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H3615
28Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to live there for a while, will know whose word stands, Mine or theirs!H4962H4557H6412H2719H7725H776H4714H776H3063H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H3045H1697H6965
29This will be a sign to you'— [this is] the LORD's declaration— 'that I am about to punish you in this place, so you may know that My words of disaster concerning you will certainly come to pass.H226H5002H3068H6485H4725H3045H1697H6965H6965H7451
30This is what the LORD says: I am about to hand over Pharaoh Hophra, Egypt's king, to his enemies, to those who want to take his life, just as I handed over Judah's King Zedekiah to Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar, who was his enemy, the one who wanted to take his life.'"H559H3068H5414H6548H4428H4714H3027H341H3027H1245H5315H5414H6667H4428H3063H3027H5019H4428H894H341H1245H5315


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