all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all
the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation,
and no man dwells therein,
044:003 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, that they didn't know, neither they,
nor you, nor your fathers.
044:004 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable
thing that I hate.
044:005 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
044:006 Therefore my wrath and my 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 it is this day.
044:007 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God
of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls,
to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling,
out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
044:008 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt,
where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off,
and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations
of the earth?
044:009 Have you 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 committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
044:010 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared,
nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before
you and before your fathers.
044:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil,
even to cut off all Judah.
044:012 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; in the land of Egypt shall they fall;
they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine;
they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror,
[and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
044:013 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence;
044:014 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into
the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left,
to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire
to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such
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