Jeremiah 44:1-17 ▼

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, those dwelling in Migdol, and in Tahpanhes, and in Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, saying,

2 “Thus says YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel: You? have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. And behold, they are a desolation this day, and no one is dwelling in them.

3 Because of their evil that they have done, provoking Me to anger by going to burn incense to serve other gods whom they had not known—they, you?, and your? fathers.

4 And I sent to you? all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying: ‘I implore you, do not do the thing of this abhorrence that I hate!’

5 And they did not listen and they did not stretch out their ear to turn back from their evil, so as not to burn incense other to gods.

6 My fury and My anger was poured out, and it burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became as a ruin and as a desolation, as this day.

7 And now, thus says YHWH, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you? doing great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you? man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave behind for you? a remnant,

8 by provoking Me to anger by the works of your? hands, burning incense other to gods in the land of Egypt, where you? are going in to dwell there, so as to cut off yourselves and to become as a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

9 Have you? forgotten the evils of your? fathers, and the evils of the kings of Judah, and the evils of their wives, and your? own evils, and the evils of your? wives, which they did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10 They have not been broken to this day, and they have not feared, and they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you? and before your? fathers.

11 Therefore, thus says YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am setting My face against you? for disaster, and to cut off all Judah!

12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, those who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they will all finished off in the land of Egypt. They will fall by the sword, by the famine. They will be finished off from the small even to the great. By the sword and by the famine they will die, and they will be as an object of cursing, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a taunt!

13 For I will visit punishment upon those dwelling in the land of Egypt, as I visited upon Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by pestilence.

14 And will there be no escapee or survivor for the remnant of Judah having gone in the land of Egypt to dwell there, that they should return to the land of Judah, to which they are lifting their soul to return to dwell there; for none will return, except a few escapees.

15 And they answered Jeremiah—all the men knowing that their wives had been burning incense other to gods, and all the women standing by, a great assembly, and all the people dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros—saying,

16 “The word that you have spoken to us in the name of YHWH—we will not listen to you.

17 For we will surely do will we do every word that has gone forth from our mouth, burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink offerings, as we have done—we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And we were satisfied with food, and we were well, and we did not see evil.