Jeremiah 44:2-17 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Ye yourselves, saw all the calamity, which I brought in upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah,––and there, they are, a desolation, this day, and there is not, in them an inhabitant:

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Ye yourselves, saw all the calamity, which I brought in upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah,––and there, they are, a desolation, this day, and there is not, in them an inhabitant: ³ because of their wickedness, which they committed, provoking me to anger, by going to burn incense, to serve other, gods,––whom they had not known, they, ye, nor your fathers; ⁴ yet I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them, saying, Do not, I pray you, commit this abominable thing, which I hate! ⁵ but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, by turning from their wickedness,––so as not to burn incense to other, gods. ⁶ Therefore were mine indignation and mine anger, poured out, and a fire was kindled in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––and they became waste and desolate, as at this day. ⁷ Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel––Wherefore, are ye, committing a great wickedness against your own lives, that ye should cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of the midst of Judah,––so that there should not be left you, a remnant: ⁸ in that ye provoke me to anger by the works of your own hands, burning incense to other, gods, in the land of Egypt, which ye, have been entering to sojourn,––that ye should cut [them] off, from you, and that ye should become a contempt and a reproach, among all the nations of the earth? ⁹ Have ye forgotten the wicked ways of your fathers, and the wicked ways of the kings of Judah, and the wicked ways of his wives, and your own wicked ways, and the wicked ways of your own wives,––which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰ They have not been crushed, unto this day; neither have they been afraid, neither have they walked in my law, and in my statutes, which I set before you, and before your fathers. ¹¹ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! setting my face against you, for calamity,––even to cut off all Judah; ¹² and I will take the remnant of Judah who did set their faces, to enter the land of Egypt, to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, in the land of Egypt, shall they fall by the sword, by famine, shall they be consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine, shall they die,––so shall they become a curse, and an astonishment, and a contempt, and a reproach; ¹³ and I will bring punishment upon them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, just as I brought punishment upon Jerusalem,––by sword, by famine, and by pestilence; ¹⁴ and there shall be neither escape nor survival, unto the remnant of Judah, who have been entering, to sojourn there, into the land of Egypt,––that they should return to the land of Judah, even when they, are lifting up their soul to return to dwell there, for none shall return, saving fugitives.
¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other, gods, and all the women standing by, a great convocation,––with all the people who were dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, made answer unto Jeremiah, saying: ¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee; ¹⁷ but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink–offerings, just as, we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––then were we filled with bread, and became prosperous, and, calamity, saw we none;