Jer 51
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THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and
for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying,
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Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; You have seen all the evils which I have brought
upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without
inhabitants,
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because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn
incense to other gods, whom you knew not.
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yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying,
Do not you Gr. the thing of this pollution this abominable thing which I hate.
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But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness,
so as not to burn incense to strange gods.
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So mine anger and my anger dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Juda,
and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and Lit. inaccessible a waste, as at this day.
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And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do you commit these great evils
against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the
midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;
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by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the
land of Egypt, into which you entered to dwell there, that you might be cut off, and
that you might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Have you forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and
the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land
of Juda, and See verse 6 in the streets of Jerusalem?
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And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which
I set before their fathers.
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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold I do set my face against you
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to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and
by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach,
and for destruction, and for a curse.
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And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem,
with sword and with famine: Alex. +’and pestilence’
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and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in the land
of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return:
they shall not return, but only they that escape.
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Then all the men that knew that their wives burned Heb. and Alex. +’to other gods’ incense, and all the women, a great Lit.
assembly multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered
Jeremias, saying,
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As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken
to you.
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For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn
incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as we and our
fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets
of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
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But Gr. as since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought
low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.
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And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to
her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?
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Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the
people that returned him these words for answer, saying,
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Did not the Lord remember the incense which you burned in the cities of Juda, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes,
and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?
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And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and
because of your abominations which you wrought; and so your land became a desolation
and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;
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because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein you sinned against
the Lord: and you have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked
in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have
Lit. taken hold of you come upon you.
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And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear you the word of the Lord.
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Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; You women have spoken with your mouth, and you
fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have
vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her:
full well did you keep to your vows, and you have indeed performed them.
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Therefore hear you the word of the Lord, all Gr. Juda Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, says the
Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives,
in all the land of Egypt.
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For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all Gr. Juda the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt
shall perish by sword and by famine, until
they are utterly consumed.
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And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and
the remnant of Juda, Alex. «who go down to« who have continued in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word
shall
stand.
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And this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.
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Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his
enemy, and into the hands of Alex. «them that seek’ one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands
of Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.