Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 44

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Jeremiah 44 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 44 of Jeremiah—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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¶ The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in ¹Migdol, ²Tahpanhes, ³Memphis, and the land of ⁴Pathros, saying,
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ⁵ruins and no one lives in them,
⁶because of their wickedness which they committed so as to ⁷provoke Me to anger by continuing to ⁸burn ^[a]sacrifices and to ⁹serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
Yet I ¹⁰sent you all My servants the prophets, ^[b]again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this ¹¹abominable thing which I hate.”
But ¹²they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn ^[c]sacrifices to other gods.
Therefore My ¹³wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the ¹⁴cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a ruin and a ¹⁵desolation as it is this day.
Now then thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you ¹⁶doing great harm to yourselves, so as to ¹⁷cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,
¹⁸provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, ¹⁹burning ^[d]sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a ²⁰curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Have you forgotten the ²¹wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
But they ²²have not become ^[e]contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor ²³walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’
¶ “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am going to ²⁴set My face against you for ^[f]woe, even to cut off all Judah.
And I will ²⁵take away the remnant of Judah who have set their ^[g]mind on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all ^[h]²⁶meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a ²⁷curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach.
And I will ²⁸punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine and with pestilence.
So there will be ²⁹no refugees or survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are ^[i]³⁰longing to return and live; for none will ³¹return except a few refugees.’”
¶ Then ³²all the men who were aware that their wives were burning ^[j]sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, ^[k]including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,
“As for the ^[l]³³message that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, ³⁴we are not going to listen to you!
But rather we will certainly ³⁵carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, ^[m]by burning ^[n]sacrifices to the ³⁶queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as ³⁷we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had ³⁸plenty of ^[o]food and were well off and saw no ^[p]misfortune.
But since we stopped burning ^[q]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have ³⁹lacked everything and have ^[r]met our end by the sword and by famine.”
“And,” said the women, “when we were ⁴⁰burning ^[s]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and ^[t]were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it ⁴¹without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes ^[u]in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
¶ Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were giving him such an answer—saying,
“As for the ^[v]⁴²smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the ⁴³streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD ⁴⁴remember them and did not all this come into His ^[w]mind?
So the LORD was ⁴⁵no longer able to endure it, ⁴⁶because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thus your land has become a ⁴⁷ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
Because you have burned ^[x]sacrifices and have sinned against the LORD and ⁴⁸not obeyed the voice of the LORD or ⁴⁹walked in His law, His statutes or His testimonies, therefore this ⁵⁰calamity has befallen you, as it has this day.”
¶ Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “⁵¹Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are ⁵²in the land of Egypt,
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, as follows: ‘As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, “We will ⁵³certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn ^[y]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” ^[z]⁵⁴Go ahead and confirm your vows, and certainly perform your vows!’
^[aa]Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, ‘Behold, I have ⁵⁵sworn by My great name,’ says the LORD, ‘⁵⁶never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “⁵⁷As the Lord ^[ab]GOD lives.”
Behold, I am watching over them ⁵⁸for harm and not for good, and ⁵⁹all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will ^[ac]meet their end by the sword and by famine until they ^[ad]are completely gone.
⁶⁰Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah ^[ae]⁶¹few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know ⁶²whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.
This will be the ⁶³sign to you,’ declares the LORD, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that ⁶⁴My words will surely stand against you for harm.’
Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I am going to give over ⁶⁵Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt to the hand of his enemies, to the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave over ⁶⁶Zedekiah king of Judah to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and was seeking his life.’”

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FOOTNOTES

^ Or incense
^ Lit rising early and sending
^ Or incense
^ Or incense
^ Lit crushed
^ Lit evil
^ Lit face
^ Lit be finished
^ Lit lifting up their soul
^ Or incense
^ Lit and
^ Lit word
^ Or so as to burn
^ Or incense
^ Lit bread
^ Lit evil
^ Or incense
^ Lit been finished
^ Or incense
^ Lit to pour
^ Lit to make an image of her
^ Or incense
^ Lit heart
^ Or incense
^ Or incense
^ Lit Surely cause to stand
^ Lit Therefore
^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
^ Lit be finished
^ Lit come to an end
^ Lit men of number

REFERENCES

^ Ex 14:2; Je 46:14
^ Je 43:7; Eze 30:18
^ Is 19:13; Je 2:16; 46:14; Eze 30:13, 16; Ho 9:6
^ Is 11:11; Eze 29:14; 30:14
^ Is 6:11; Je 4:7; 9:11; 34:22; Mc 3:12
^ Ne 9:33; Je 2:17-19; 44:23; Eze 8:17, 18; Da 9:5
^ Is 3:8; Je 7:19; 32:30-32; 44:8
^ Je 19:4
^ De 13:6; 29:26; 32:17
^ Je 7:13, 25; 25:4; 26:5; 29:19; 35:15; Zc 7:7
^ Je 16:18; 32:34, 35; Eze 8:10
^ Je 11:8, 10; 13:10
^ Is 51:17-20; Je 42:18; Eze 8:18
^ Je 7:17, 34
^ Je 4:27; 34:22
^ Nu 16:38; Je 26:19; Eze 33:11; Hab 2:10
^ Je 3:24; 9:21; 51:22
^ 2Ki 17:15-17; Je 25:6, 7; 44:3; 1Co 10:21, 22
^ Je 7:9; 11:12, 17; 44:3; Ho 4:13; Hab 1:16
^ 1Ki 9:7, 8; 2Ch 7:20; Je 42:18
^ Je 7:9, 10, 17, 18; 44:17, 21
^ Je 6:15; 8:12
^ Je 26:4; 32:23; 44:23
^ Le 17:10; 20:5, 6; 26:17; Je 21:10; Am 9:4
^ Je 42:15-18, 22
^ Is 1:28; Je 16:4; 44:7
^ Is 65:15; Je 18:16; 24:9; 26:6; 29:18; 42:18; Zc 8:13
^ Je 11:22; 44:27, 28
^ Je 22:10; 44:27
^ Je 22:26, 27
^ Is 4:2; 10:20; Je 44:28; Ro 9:27
^ Pr 11:21; Is 1:5; Je 5:1-5
^ Je 43:2
^ Pr 1:24-27; Je 11:8, 10; 13:10
^ Nu 30:12; De 23:23
^ 2Ki 17:16; Je 7:18
^ Ne 9:34; Je 32:32; 44:21
^ Ex 16:3; Ho 2:5-9; Pp 3:19
^ Nu 11:5, 6; Je 40:12; Ml 3:13-15
^ Je 7:18
^ Nu 30:6, 7; Je 44:15
^ Eze 8:10, 11
^ Je 11:13; 44:9, 17
^ Ps 79:8; Is 64:9; Je 14:10; Ho 7:2; Am 8:7
^ Is 7:13; 43:24; Ml 2:17
^ Je 4:4; 21:12; 30:14
^ Ge 19:13; Ps 107:33, 34; Je 25:11, 18, 38; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12
^ Je 7:13-15; 40:3
^ Je 44:10; Ps 119:136, 150
^ 1Ki 9:9; Ne 13:18; Je 44:2; Da 9:11, 12
^ Je 42:15; 44:16
^ Je 43:7; 44:15, 26
^ Je 44:17; Mt 14:9; Ac 23:12
^ Eze 20:39
^ Ge 22:16; De 32:40, 41; Je 22:5; Am 6:8; Heb 6:13
^ Ps 50:16; Eze 20:39
^ Is 48:1, 2; Je 5:2
^ Je 1:10; 31:28; 39:16
^ 2Ki 21:14; Je 44:14
^ Je 44:14
^ Is 10:19; 27:12, 13
^ Ps 33:11; Is 14:27; 46:10, 11; Zc 1:6
^ Is 7:11, 14; 8:18; Je 44:30; Mt 24:15, 16, 32
^ Pr 19:21; Is 40:8
^ Je 43:9-13; 46:25; Eze 29:3; 30:21
^ 2Ki 25:4-7; Je 34:21; 39:5-7

Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 44

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