1The word which came to Jeremiah to all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Migdol and in Tahpanhes and in Memphis and in the land of Pathros, saying:2Thus said the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: You saw all the distress which I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah, and look! they are desolation this day, and there is no one dwelling in them.3Because of their evil which they committed to provoke me by going to make offerings and to serve other gods that they had not known, they and you and your fathers.4And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, "Do not do this abominable thing that I hate."5And they did not hear and did not stretch their ear to return from their distress, lest they offer burn offerings to other gods.6And my rage and my anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became desolation, devastation, like this day.7And now thus said the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing great distress to your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, lest a remnant remain to you?8To provoke me by the deeds of your hands, to offer burn offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you are coming to sojourn there, because to cut you off and because you will become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth.9Have you forgotten the distresses of your fathers and the distresses of the kings of Judah and the distresses of their women and your own distresses and the distresses that your women did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?10They were not crushed until this day, and they did not fear, and they did not walk in my instruction and in my statutes which I gave before you and before your fathers.11Therefore thus said the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Look! I am setting my face against you for distress and to cut off all Judah.12And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their face to come to the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will be finished, all in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword, by famine they will be finished, from small even to great; by the sword and by famine they will die, and they will become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a reproach.13And I reckoned upon the dwellers in the land of Egypt as I reckoned upon Jerusalem, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence.14And there will not be a survivor or remnant to the remnant of Judah who are coming to sojourn in the land of Egypt and to return to the land of Judah, to which they lift up their soul to return and dwell; for they will not return, except as survivors.15And they answered Jeremiah, all the men knowing that their women offer burn offerings to other gods, and all the women standing in the great assembly, and all the people dwelling in the land of Egypt in Pathros, saying:16The word which you spoke to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.17For we will surely do every word that came out from our lips, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we were filled with food and were prosperous, and saw no distress.18And from that time we ceased to offer burnt offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her; we lacked everything, and by the sword and by famine we were finished.19And because we offer burnt offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, did we do this without our men, to make cakes to shape her and to pour out drink offerings to her?20And Jeremiah said to all the people, to the great men and to the women and to all the people who answered him, saying:21Is it not the incense which you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your rulers, and the people of the land? The LORD remembered it, and it came up into his heart.22And the LORD is no longer able to bear the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you committed, so that your land has become a desolation and a horror and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.23Because you offered incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not listen to the voice of the LORD or to his instruction or to his statutes or to his testimonies, and did not walk in them, therefore this distress has come upon you, as it is this day.24And Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women: Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt.25Thus said the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: You and your women have spoken with your lips, and with your hands you have fulfilled it, saying, 'We will surely perform our vow that we have vowed, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.' You will surely establish your vow, and you will surely perform your vow.26Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all Judah dwelling in the land of Egypt: Look! I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no longer be called on the lips of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the LORD lives.'27Look! I am watching over them for distress and not for welfare, and they will be finished, all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, by the sword and by famine, until they are finished.28And the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number, and all the remnant of Judah who came to the land of Egypt to sojourn there will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.29And this shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I am reckoning with you in this place, because you will know that my words will stand against you for harm.30Thus said the LORD: Look! I am giving Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemy and into the hand of those seeking his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, his enemy and seeking his life.