44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the
land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in
the country of Pathros, saying,
(44:2-8) God explains why he had to bring evil on Judah: the people burned incense to other gods.
44:2Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon
Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they
are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
(44:2) "Thus saith the LORD ... Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah;
and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth 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, whom they
knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
(44:3) "They went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers."
44:4
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.
(44:4) "Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate."
44:5But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their
wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
(44:5) "But they hearkened not ... to burn no incense unto other gods."
44:6Wherefore 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.
(44:6) "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."
44:7
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, 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;
(44:7) "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."
44:8
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?
(44:8) "Ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other
gods in the land of Egypt ... that ye might cut yourselves off and that ye might be a curse and a
reproach among all the nations of the earth."
44:9Have 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?
(44:9-10) Men need to control their wicked wives.
(44:9) "Have ye forgotten ... the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in
the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?"
44:10They 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.
(44:10) "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."
44:11
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
(44:11-13) God is not finished with Judah. He'll bring more evil upon
them. Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all
with war, famine, and disease. What the Bible says about Evil
(44:11) "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah."
(44:12) "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."
(44:13) "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."
44:12
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.
44:13For 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:
44:14
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.
44:15Then 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,
(44:15-25) God is going to do some really bad things to the people because the women burned incense to the "Queen of
Heaven" (Mary?).
(44:15) "Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by,
... saying, (Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.... -- Just kidding!)"
44:16
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we
will not hearken unto thee.
44:17
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.
(44:17) "We will ... burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her."
44:18
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.
(44:18) "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."
44:19And 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?
(44:19) "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?"
44:20
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and
to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
44:21
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the
people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not 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 ye have committed; therefore is your
land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant,
as at this day.
(44:22) "Because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your
land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant,
as at this day."
44:23Because ye have burned incense, and because ye 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 is happened
unto you, as at this day.
(44:23) "Because ye have burned incense, and because ye 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 is happened
unto you, as at this day."
44:24
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the
word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
44:25
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives
have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We
will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely
accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
(44:25) "Ye and your wives
have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We
will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her."
44:26
Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah 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 Judah in all the land
of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
(44:26) "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 Judah in all the land
of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth."
God swears by his own "great name" that no one from Judah will know his name anymore in Egypt.
44:27Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men
of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by
the famine, until there be an end of them.
(44:27-29) "I will watch over them for evil, and not for good."
So begins another pronouncement of death and destruction on his chosen people. What the Bible says about Evil
(44:27) " I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that 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
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand,
mine, or their's.
44:29
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you
in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you
for evil:
(44:29) "This shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you
in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you
for evil."
44:30
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into
the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I
gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
his enemy, and that sought his life.
