24:044:018 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.
24:044:019 And when we burned incense to the queen
of heaven, and poured
out
drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to
worship
her,
and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our
men?
24:044:020 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people,
to the men, and to the
women,
and to all the people which had given him that answer,
saying,
24:044:021 The incense that ye burned in the cities
of Judah, and in the
streets
of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and
your
princes, and the people of the land, did not the lord
remember
them, and came it not into his mind?
24:044:022 So that the lord 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.
24:044:023 Because ye have burned incense, and because
ye have sinned
against
the lord, and have not obeyed the voice of the
lord,
nor
walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
this
day.
24:044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people,
and to all the
women,
Hear the word of the lord, all Judah that are
in the
land
of Egypt:
24:044:025 Thus saith the lord of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying; Ye
and
your wives 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.
24:044:026 Therefore hear ye the word of the lord,
all Judah that dwell
in
the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great
name,
saith
the lord, that my name shall no more be named
in the
mouth
of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
The
Lord god liveth.
24:044:027 Behold, I will watch over them for evil,
and not for good: and
all
the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall
be
consumed
by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end
of
them.
24:044:028 Yet a small number that escape the sword
shall return out of
the
land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant
of
Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there,
shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their’s.


