Jeremiah Chapter 44

• Jeremiah 44:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 44:2
  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in t...
• Jeremiah 44:3
  “The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, to...
• Jeremiah 44:4
  because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t ...
• Jeremiah 44:5
  However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
• Jeremiah 44:6
  But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.
• Jeremiah 44:7
  Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desola...
• Jeremiah 44:8
  “Therefore now the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves ...
• Jeremiah 44:9
  in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you...
• Jeremiah 44:10
  Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the w...
• Jeremiah 44:11
  They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathe...
• Jeremiah 44:12
  “Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.
• Jeremiah 44:13
  I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall i...
• Jeremiah 44:14
  For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
• Jeremiah 44:15
  so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to ...
• Jeremiah 44:16
  Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who liv...
• Jeremiah 44:17
  “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the LORD’s name, we will not listen to you.
• Jeremiah 44:18
  But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to he...
• Jeremiah 44:19
  But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consume...
• Jeremiah 44:20
  The women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour ...
• Jeremiah 44:21
  Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
• Jeremiah 44:22
  “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the peopl...
• Jeremiah 44:23
  Thus the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your lan...
• Jeremiah 44:24
  Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the LORD’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his ...
• Jeremiah 44:25
  Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the LORD’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!
• Jeremiah 44:26
  The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We...
• Jeremiah 44:27
  “Therefore hear the LORD’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says the LORD, ‘that my name will ...
• Jeremiah 44:28
  Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the f...
• Jeremiah 44:29
  Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the...
• Jeremiah 44:30
  “‘This will be the sign to you,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you f...
• Jeremiah 44:31
  The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I ...