Jeremiah, starting at chapter 43
{43:1} It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh
their God had sent him to them, even all these words, {43:2} then
spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and
all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our
God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn
there; {43:3} but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to
deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to
death, and carry us away captive to Babylon. {43:4} So Johanan the son
of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people,
didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah. {43:5}
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations
where they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; {43:6}
the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters,
and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left
with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the
prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; {43:7} and they came into the
land of Egypt; for they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came
to Tahpanhes. {43:8} Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9} Take great stones in your hand, and hide
them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; {43:10} and tell
them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread
his royal pavilion over them. {43:11} He shall come, and shall strike
the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death,
and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the
sword to the sword. {43:12} I will kindle a fire in the houses of the
gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive:
and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts
on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace. {43:13} He
shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of
Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
{44:1} 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 the country of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I
have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold,
this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, {44:3}
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,
that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. {44:4}
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. {44:5} But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. {44:6}
Therefore my wrath and my 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 it is this day. {44:7} Therefore now thus says
Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great
evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman,
infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves
none remaining; {44:8} 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 sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you
may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
{44:9} Have you 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
committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
{44:10} 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 fathers. {44:11} Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for
evil, even to cut off all Judah. {44:12} 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; in the land of Egypt
shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the
famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the
sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, [and]
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. {44:13} 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; {44:14}
so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the
land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there:
for none shall return save such as shall escape. {44:15} 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
lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
{44:16} As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of
Yahweh, we will not listen to you. {44:17} But we will certainly
perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn
incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to
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 food, and were well, and saw no evil. {44:18} But since
we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out
drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been
consumed by the sword and by the famine. {44:19} 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 out drink
offerings to her, without our husbands? {44:20} 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, {44:21} 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 people of the
land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind?
{44:22} so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of
your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed;
therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and
a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. {44:23} Because you
have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and
have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his
statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to
you, as it is this day. {44:24} Moreover Jeremiah said to all the
people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who
are in the land of Egypt: {44:25} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your
mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely
perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of
the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your
vows, and perform your vows. {44:26} Therefore hear the word of
Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn
by my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in
the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the
Lord Yahweh lives. {44:27} Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not
for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall
be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them. {44:28} Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land
of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of
Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall
know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. {44:29} This shall be
the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place,
that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for
evil: {44:30} Thus says Yahweh, 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; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
{45:1} The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, saying, {45:2} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you,
Baruch: {45:3} You said, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to
my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. {45:4} You
shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will
I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this
in the whole land. {45:5} Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't
seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh;
but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
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