Jeremiah 44:17-18
17 aBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to bthe queen of heaven cand pour out drink offerings to her, das 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. 18But since we left off making offerings to ethe queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything fand have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”Jeremiah 44:22
22 gThe Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and hthe abominations that you committed. iTherefore your land has become ja desolation and a waste and a curse, kwithout inhabitant, as it is this day.Jeremiah 44:27
27 lBehold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. mAll the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.Lamentations 5:2-6
2 nOur inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our homes to foreigners.
3We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
5 oOur pursuers are at our necks; ▼
▼Symmachus With a yoke on our necks
we are weary; we are given no rest.
6We have given the hand to qEgypt, and to rAssyria,
to get bread enough.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
16Moreover, he said to me, s“Son of man, behold, tI will break the supply ▼▼Hebrew staff
of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread vby weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water wby measure and in dismay. 17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and xlook at one another in dismay, and yrot away because of their punishment.
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