The word
that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews
which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at
Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the
country of Pathros, saying,
02 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities
of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
03 Because of their wickedness which they have
committed to provoke me to anger, in that they
went to burn incense, and to serve other gods,
whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your
fathers.
04 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising early and sending them, saying,
Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
05 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear
to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense
unto other gods.
06 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured
forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and
in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted
and desolate, as at this day.
07 Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of
hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye
this great evil against your souls, to cut off
from you man and woman, child and suckling, out
of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
08 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the
works of your hands, burning incense unto other
gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to
dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that
ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the
nations of the earth?
09 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your
fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of
Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and
your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
wives, which they have committed in the land of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled even unto this day,
neither have they feared, nor walked in my law,
nor in my statutes, that I set before you and
before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against
you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that
have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt
to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed,
and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be
consumed by the sword and by the famine: they
shall die, from the least even unto the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be
an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse,
and a reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land
of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
shall escape or remain, that they should return
into the land of Judah, to the which they have a
desire to return to dwell there: for none shall
return but such as shall escape.
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives
had burned incense unto other gods, and all the
women that stood by, a great multitude, even all
the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us
in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto
thee.
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17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing
goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense
unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto 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 had we plenty of victuals, and were
well, and saw no evil.
18 But since we left off to burn incense to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings
unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the queen of
heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her,
did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour
out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the
men, and to the women, and to all the people
which had given him that answer, saying,
21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and
your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and
the people of the land, did not the Lord remember
them, and came it not into his mind?
22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because
of the evil of your doings, and because of the
abominations which ye have committed; therefore
is your land a desolation, and an astonishment,
and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
day.
23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye
have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed
the voice of the Lord, nor walked in his law, nor
in his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
this day.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people,
and to all the women, Hear the word of the Lord,
all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both
spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your
hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows
that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen
of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto
her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and
surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all
Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I
have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that
my name shall no more be named in the mouth of
any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt,
saying, The Lord God liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and
not for good: and all the men of Judah that are
in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the
sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of
Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are
gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or
their's.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the
Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that
ye may know that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil:
30 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give
Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his
life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his
enemy, and that sought his life.
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