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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 44
The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews
that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal,
and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures,
saying:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You
have seen all this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem,
and upon all the cities of Juda: and behold they are
desolate this day, and there is not an inhabitant in
them:
Because of the wickedness which they have committed,
to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice,
and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you,
nor your fathers knew.
And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising
early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable
thing, which I hate.
But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.
Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth,
and was kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets
of Jerusalem: and they are turned to desolation and
waste, as at this day.
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls,
that there should die of you man and woman, child and
suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should
be left you:
In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your
hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt,
into which you are come to dwell there: and that you
should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all
the nations of the earth?
Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the
evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives,
and your evils, and the evils of your wives, that they
have done in the land of Juda, and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have
they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor
in my commandments, which I set before you and your
fathers.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will
destroy all Juda.
And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their
faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there:
and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt:
they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and
they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest,
by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and
they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and
for a curse, and for a reproach.
And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine,
and by pestilence.
And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain
of the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn
in the land of Egypt: and that shall return into the
land of Juda, to which they have a desire to return
to dwell there: there shall none return but they that
shall flee.
Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed
to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood
by a great multitude, and all the people of them that
dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias,
saying:
As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the
name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:
But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed
out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our
fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the
cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and
we were filled with bread, and it was well with us,
and we saw no evil.
But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen
of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we
have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the
sword, and by famine.
And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and
pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to
worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without
our husbands?
And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and
to the women, and to all the people which had given
him that answer, saying:
Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities
of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and Sour
fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people
of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath
it not entered into his heart?
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 is become
a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without
an inhabitant, as at this day.
Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned
against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the
Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments,
and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come
upon you, as at this day.
And Jeremias said to all the people, and to all the
women : Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you
that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying:
You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and
fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our
vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen
of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you
have fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.
Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you
that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn
by my great name, saith the Lord: that my name shall
no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in
the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.
Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for
good: and all the men of Juda that are in the land of
Egypt, shall be consumed, by the sword, and by famine,
till there be an end of them.
And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda:
and all the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land
of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall
stand, mine, or theirs.
And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that
I will punish you in this place: that you may know that
my words shall be accomplished indeed against you for
evil.
Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Ephree
king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into
the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered
Sedecias king of Juda into the hand of Nabuchodonosor
the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life. |
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