THE Word that came to El-Yirmeyahu concerning all the Yahudiym which dwell in the land of Mitsrayim, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tachpanchec, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathroc, saying,
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Ye have seen את all the evil that I have brought upon Yerushalayim, and upon all the cities of Yahudah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other elohiym, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not את this abominable thing that I hate.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other elohiym.
Wherefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Yahudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Therefore now thus says Yahuah, the Elohai Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Yahudah, to leave you none to remain;
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other elohiym in the land of Mitsrayim, 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?
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Yahudah, and the wickedness of their women, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your women, which they have committed in the land of Yahudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim?
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my Torah, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Therefore thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Yahudah.
And I will take the remnant of Yahudah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Mitsrayim; 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.
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Mitsrayim, as I have punished Yerushalayim, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
So that none of the remnant of Yahudah, which are gone into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Yahudah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Then all the men which knew that their women had burned incense unto other elohiym, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in Pathroc, answered Yirmeyahu, saying,
As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of Yahuah, we will not hearken unto you.
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes 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 Yahudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
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.
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her sacrificial wafers to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Then Yirmeyahu said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Yahudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Yahuah remember them, and came it not into his mind?
So that Yahuah 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.
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Yahuah, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahuah, nor walked in his Torah, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Moreover Yirmeyahu said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the Word of Yahuah, all Yahudah that are in the land of Mitsrayim:
Thus says Yahuah-Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el, saying; Ye and your women 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.
Therefore hear ye the Word of Yahuah, all Yahudah that dwell in the land of Mitsrayim; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahuah, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Yahudah in all the land of Mitsrayim, saying, Adonai Yahuah lives.
Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Yahudah that are in the land of Mitsrayim shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Mitsrayim into the land of Yahudah, and all the remnant of Yahudah, that are gone into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
And this shall be a sign unto you, says Yahuah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Thus says Yahuah; Behold, I will give Phar'oh Chophra king of Mitsrayim into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Tsidqiyahu king of Yahudah into the hand of Nevukadne'tstsar king of Babel, his enemy, and that sought his life.