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and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they
are
a desolation, and no man dwelleth
therein,
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, whom they knew not,
neither
they, ye, nor your
fathers.
4
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending
them,
saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their
ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
6
Wherefore my fury and
mine 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 at this day.
7
Therefore now thus saith the L
ORD
, the God of
hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye
this
great evil against your souls, to cut off from
you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8
In that ye
provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land
of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9
Have ye 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 have committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10
They are not humbled
even
unto this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
11
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against
you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12
And 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,
and
fall in the
land of Egypt; they shall
even
be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from
the least even unto the greatest, by the sword
and
by the famine: and they shall be an execration,
and
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
13
For I will punish them that dwell in the land
of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
14
So
that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall
escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to
return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the
women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16
As for
the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name
of the L
ORD
, we will not hearken unto thee.
17
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth
out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings
unto 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 victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto
her, we have wanted all
things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19
And
when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we
make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
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