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Jeremiah 44:1
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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, |
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| Jeremiah 44:2 |
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Thus 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, |
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| Jeremiah 44:3 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:4 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:5 |
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear
to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. |
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| Jeremiah 44:6 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:7 |
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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; |
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| Jeremiah 44:8 |
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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? |
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| Jeremiah 44:9 |
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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? |
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| Jeremiah 44:10 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:11 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:12 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:13 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 44:14 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:15 |
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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, |
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| Jeremiah 44:16 |
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As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us
in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. |
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| Jeremiah 44:17 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:18 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:19 |
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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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| Jeremiah 44:20 |
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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, |
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| Jeremiah 44:21 |
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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? |
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| Jeremiah 44:22 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:23 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:24 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 44:25 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:26 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:27 |
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Behold, 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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:28 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 44:29 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 44:30 |
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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. |
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