Jeremiah 44:16-17
16“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, awe will not listen to you. 17 bBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to cthe queen of heaven dand pour out drink offerings to her, eas we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.2 Peter 2:13-15
13suffering wrong as fthe wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure gto revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, ▼▼Some manuscripts love feasts
while ithey feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery, jinsatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts ktrained in greed. lAccursed children! 15Forsaking the right way, mthey have gone astray. They have followed nthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved ogain from wrongdoing, Jude 13
13 pwild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of qtheir own shame; rwandering stars, sfor whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
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