KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 44
Jeremiah relates what Jehovah says to Judah for their idolatry. Their destruction in Egypt. The Jews will not listen; Jeremiah threatens them. He prophesies the destruction of Egypt.
1The Word which was to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who were living in the land of Egypt, those living at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the land of Pathros, saying,
2So says Jehovah 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 ruin, and no one lives in them,
3because of the evil which they have done, by provoking Me to anger, by going to burn incense, by serving other gods that they did not know, they, you, and not your fathers.
4And, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Do not now do this disgusting thing which I hate!
5But they did not listen and not did stretch their ear, to turn from their evil ways, not to burn incense to other gods.
6And My fury and My anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And they are for a waste and for a desolation as at this day.
7And now so says Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you do this great evil thing against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, not leaving to yourselves a remnant,
8to provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, there where you have gone to sojourn, that I might cut you off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9Have you forgotten the evilness of your fathers, and the evilness of the kings of Judah, and the evilness of his wives, and your own evilness, and the evilness of your wives, which they have done in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10They are not made contrite to this day, and they have not feared, and not they have walked in My Law, and not in My statutes which I gave before you and before your fathers.
11So Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says this: Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12And I will take the remnant of Judah who 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 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 a curse, a horror, and a shame, and a reproach.
13For I will call to account those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have called to account Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague,
14so that none of the remnant of Judah which has gone into the land of Egypt, to sojourn there, will be a fugitive, or a survivor, and turn back to the land of Judah to which they are lifting up their soul to turn back to live there, for none shall return, except the ones who escape.
15And all the men who knew that their wives had 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,
16As for the Word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not listen to you.
17But doing we will do whatever thing goes out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the outside places of Jerusalem. And we were satisfied with food, and were well, and saw no evil thing.
18But when we stopped burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been devoured by the sword and by the famine.
19And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to form her image, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our men?
20And Jeremiah said to all the people; to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who were answering,
21The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your rulers, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah remember them? Yea, it came into His heart.
22And Jehovah could not still bear it because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations you have done. And your land became a waste, and a horror, and a curse, without one living in it, as this day.
23Before which time you have burned incense, and in which you have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, in His Law, or in His statutes; and in which you did not walk in His testimonies, therefore this evil thing has happened to you, as at this day.
24And Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the Word of Jehovah, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt.
25So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, Performing we will perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to her. Lifting up you lift up your vows and performing you perform your vows.
26So hear the Word of Jehovah, all Judah who sojourn in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says Jehovah, 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 Jehovah lives.
27Behold, I will 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 consumed.
28And he who escapes the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a 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, theirs or Mine.
29And this shall be the sign to you, says Jehovah, that I will call you to account in this place, so that you may know that My words rising shall rise against you for your evil doing:
30So says Jehovah, Behold, I am giving Pharaoh-hophra, king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his soul, even as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, his enemy that sought his soul.
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