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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 the LORD their God, with which the
LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, {43:2} then
spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Yochanan the son of Kareah, and
all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our
God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live
there; {43:3} but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to
deliver us into the hand of the Kasdim, that they may put us to death,
and carry us away captive to Babylon. {43:4} So Yochanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't
obey the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah. {43:5} But
Yochanan 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 live 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 the LORD: and they came to
Tahpanhes. {43:8} Then came the word of the LORD 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 the LORD of Hosts, 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 put 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
the LORD of Hosts, 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, 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
the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great
evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman,
infant and nursing child 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 live; 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 the LORD of
Hosts, 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 live
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, 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 live 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD remember them, and didn't it come into his
mind? {44:22} so that the LORD 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 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 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 the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt: {44:25}
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD, all Judah who dwell in
the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says 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, As the Lord GOD 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 they are all gone. {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 live there, shall know whose word shall stand,
mine, or theirs. {44:29} This shall be the sign to you, says the LORD,
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 the LORD,
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 the LORD, the God of Israel, to you,
Baruch: {45:3} You said, Woe is me now! for the LORD 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 the LORD: 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 the LORD; but your life will I give to you for a prey in
all places where you go.
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