Jer 44:1-14 | ESV | STEP | The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt , at Migdol , at Tahpanhes , at Memphis , and in the land of Pathros ,

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at ^aMigdol, at ^bTahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of ^cPathros, 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day ^dthey are a desolation, and no one dwells in them, 3 because of the evil that they committed, ^eprovoking me to anger, ^fin that they went to make offerings ^gand serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. 4 ^hYet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’ 5 ⁱBut they did not listen ^jor incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods. 6 ^kTherefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ^land they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day. 7 And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil ^magainst yourselves, to cut off from you ⁿman and woman, ^oinfant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant? 8 ^pWhy do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, ^qmaking offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become ^ra curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, ^sthe evil of the kings of Judah, ^tthe evil of their ^{▼▼Hebrew his} wives, your own evil, ^vand the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They have not humbled themselves even to this day, ^wnor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

11 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^xBehold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah. 12 I will take the remnant of Judah who have ^yset their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. ^zIn the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine ^aathey shall be consumed. ^abFrom the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, ^acand they shall become an oath, a horror, ^ada curse, and a taunt. 13 ^aeI will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, 14 ^afso that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive ^agor return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, ^ahexcept some fugitives.”