November
8th Jeremiah 44 Jeremiah preaches against Egypt
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, 2: 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, 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. 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. 5: But they hearkened not, nor
inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other
gods. 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,
as at this day. 7: Therefore
now this 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; 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? 9: 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? 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. 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. 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. 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: 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. 15:
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, 16: As for the word that thou hast
spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. 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. 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. 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? 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, 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? 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 27: 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. 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 theirs. 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: 30: Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra 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.
Jeremiah
45 Jeremiah message to Baruch
1: The word that Jeremiah the prophet
spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book
at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, saying, 2: Thus
saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; 3: Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief
to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. 4: Thus shalt thou say unto him, The
LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. 5: And seekest thou great things for
thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith
the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither
thou goest.
Even in Egypt
the Lord still continued to give prophesies to Jeremiah. The Lord reminds
Jeremiah of why the whole land of Judah is empty and why he had sent the men of Judah out of
the land. Then the Lord asks why they have not remained in the land. He says
you have committed a great evil against yourselves. The Lord asks, have you
forgotten all the judgments l have brought on my people? Even now they have not
humbled themselves before the Lord, nor have they feared him or obeyed his law.
Then the Lord said because of this, l will set my face against you for evil,
you will die in Egypt
and never return. And l will punish Egypt where they have accepted you.
Then the people who knew what they had done said, we will not listen to you. We
will do whatever we want to do and we will worship the Queen of heaven. They
also said that all the terrible things that have come upon them were due to not
offering to idols. Jeremiah said no these things have happened to you because
of your idolatry. The Lord swore that the men of Judah
in Egypt
would be totally destroyed by war and famine. Yet a very small number will
escape back to Judah.
The Lord also said that Pharaoh would be taken captive by his enemies.
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