Jer 44:18-19 | ESV | STEP | But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine .

a[See ver. 17 above]

Jeremiah 44:18-19

18 But since we left off making offerings to ^athe queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything ^band have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” 19 And the women said, ^{▼▼Compare Syriac; Hebrew lacks And the women said} “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven ^dand poured out drink offerings to her, was it ^ewithout our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”