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4 »‘I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.
5 »‘But you would not listen or pay any attention. You would not give up your evil practice of sacrificing to other gods.
6 »‘I poured out my anger and fury on the towns of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem. I set them on fire. They were left in ruins and became a horrifying sight, as they are today.’«
7 »I Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Now ask why you are doing such an evil thing to yourselves. Do you want to bring destruction on men and women, children and babies, so that none of your people will be left?
8 »‘Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?
9 »‘Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their wives, and by you and your wives?
10 »‘You have not humbled yourselves to this very day. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.’«
11 »I Jehovah, the God of Israel, will turn against you and destroy all Judah.
12 »As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.
13 »I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem with the sword (war), starvation, and disease.
14 »None of the people of Judah who are left and have come to Egypt to live will escape or survive. Not one of them will return to Judah, where they long to live once again. No one will return except a few refugees.’«