44This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt--in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis--and in Upper Egypt:H1697H3414H3064H3427H776H4714H3427H4024H8471H5297H776H6624H5592"This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Today they lie deserted and in ruinsH559H3068H6635H430H3478H7200H7451H935H3389H5892H3063H3117H2723H34273because of the evil they have done. They provoked me to anger by burning incense and by worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.H6440H7451H6213H3707H3212H6999H5647H312H430H3045H14Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!'H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H559H6213H8441H1697H81305But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.H8085H5186H241H7725H7451H6999H312H4306Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.H2534H639H5413H1197H5892H3063H2351H3389H2723H8077H31177"Now this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?H559H3068H430H6635H430H3478H6213H1419H7451H5315H3772H376H802H5768H3243H8432H3063H3498H76118Why provoke me to anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations on earth.H3707H4639H3027H6999H312H430H776H4714H935H1481H3772H7045H2781H1471H7769Have you forgotten the wickedness committed by your fathers and by the kings and queens of Judah and the wickedness committed by you and your wives in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem?H7911H7451H1H7451H4428H3063H7451H802H7451H7451H802H6213H776H3063H2351H338910To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your fathers.H1792H3117H3372H1980H8451H2708H5414H6440H6440H111"Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to bring disaster on you and to destroy all Judah.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7760H6440H7451H3772H306312I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become an object of cursing and horror, of condemnation and reproach.H3947H7611H3063H7760H6440H935H776H4714H1481H8552H5307H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H4191H6996H1419H2719H7458H423H8047H7045H278113I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem.H6485H3427H776H4714H6485H3389H2719H7458H169814None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives."H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H6412H8300H7725H776H3063H5375H5315H7725H3427H7725H640515Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present--a large assembly--and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,H582H3045H802H6999H312H430H802H5975H1419H6951H5971H3427H776H4714H6624H6030H3414H55916"We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD!H1697H1696H8034H3068H808517We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.H6213H6213H1697H3318H6310H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H1H4428H8269H5892H3063H2351H3389H7646H3899H2896H7200H745118But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."H2308H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H2637H8552H2719H745819The women added, "When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes like her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?"H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6213H3561H6087H5258H5262H1107H58220Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,H3414H559H5971H1397H802H5971H1697H6030H55921"Did not the LORD remember and think about the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your fathers, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?H7002H6999H5892H3063H2351H3389H1H4428H8269H5971H776H3068H2142H5927H382022When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became an object of cursing and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.H3068H3201H5375H6440H7455H4611H6440H8441H6213H776H2723H8047H7045H3427H311723Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see."H6440H834H6999H2398H3068H8085H6963H3068H1980H8451H2708H5715H7451H7122H311724Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah in Egypt.H3414H559H5971H802H8085H1697H3068H3063H776H471425This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have shown by your actions what you promised when you said, 'We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.' "Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H802H1696H6310H4390H3027H559H6213H6213H5088H5087H6999H4446H8064H5258H5262H6965H6965H5088H6213H6213H508826But hear the word of the LORD, all Jews living in Egypt: 'I swear by my great name,' says the LORD, 'that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, "As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives."H8085H1697H3068H3063H3427H776H4714H7650H1419H8034H559H3068H8034H7121H6310H376H3063H776H4714H559H136H3069H241627For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed.H8245H7451H2896H376H3063H776H4714H8552H2719H7458H361528Those who escape the sword and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very few. Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand--mine or theirs.H4962H4557H6412H2719H7725H776H4714H776H3063H7611H3063H935H776H4714H1481H3045H1697H696529"'This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,' declares the LORD, 'so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.'H226H5002H3068H6485H4725H3045H1697H6965H6965H745130This is what the LORD says: 'I am going to hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who seek his life, just as I handed Zedekiah king of Judah over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.'"H559H3068H5414H6548H4428H4714H3027H341H3027H1245H5315H5414H6667H4428H3063H3027H5019H4428H894H341H1245H5315