The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Jeremiah
43:12. And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt,
and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he
shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his
garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
43:13. And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are
in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn
with fire.
Jeremias Chapter 44
The prophet's admonition to the Jews in Egypt against idolatry is not
regarded: he denounces to them their destruction.
44:1. The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt
in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in
Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:
44:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all
this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of
Juda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an
inhabitant in them:
44:3. Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me
to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which
neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.
44:4. And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and
sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.
44:5. But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil
ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.
44:6. Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was
kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they
are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.
44:7. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you
commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of
you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no
remnant should be left you:
44:8. In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by
sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come
to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a
reproach to all the nations of the earth?
44:9. Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the
kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the
evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the
streets of Jerusalem?
44:10. They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared,
nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set
before you and your fathers.
44:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold
I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.
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