The Koine Bible

The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those sitting in Migdol and in Tahpanhes and in the land of Pathros, saying,

Thus said the Lord God of Israel: You have seen all the evils that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon the cities of Judah, and behold, they are deserted, without inhabitants.

because of the face of their wickedness, which they have done, to provoke me to bitterness, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom you did not know

And I sent to you my servants the prophets early, and I sent, saying, Do not do this thing of this defilement, which I hated.

and they did not hear me, and they did not incline their ear to turn away from their evils, so as not to burn incense to other gods

And my anger and my wrath have dripped, and it was kindled in the cities of Judah and outside Jerusalem, and they became for desolation and for uninhabitedness, as this day.

And now thus said the Lord Almighty: Why are you doing great evils against your souls, to cut off from Judah man and woman, infant and one nursing, so that none of you might be left?

to provoke me to bitterness with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you entered to dwell there, so that you might be cut off and so that you might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth

Have you not yourselves forgotten the evils of your fathers and the evils of the kings of Judah and the evils of your rulers and the evils of your wives, which they did in the land of Judah and outside Jerusalem?

And they did not cease until this day, and they did not hold to my commands, which I gave before the face of their fathers.

Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I am setting my face against it

to destroy all the remnant ones in Egypt, and they shall fall by the sword and by famine; from small even to great they shall fail, and they shall be for reproach and for destruction and for a curse

And I will visit upon those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I visited upon Jerusalem, with sword and with famine and with death.

and none of the survivors of Judah who are dwelling in the land of Egypt shall be saved, to return to the land of Judah, on which they themselves hope in their souls to return there; they shall by no means return, but only as those who are escaped.

And all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women, a great assembly, and all the people who were sitting in the land of Egypt, in Pathure, answered Jeremiah, saying:

The word that you spoke to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

For doing we will do every word that goes out from our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and outside Jerusalem; and we were filled with bread and became prosperous, and we did not see evils.

And when we had ceased burning incense to the queen of heaven, we all became diminished, and by sword and by famine we failed away

and that we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her—did we not, without our men, make cakes for her and pour out drink offerings to her?

And Jeremiah said to all the people, to the mighty men and to the women and to all the people who answered him, words, saying

Was it not because of the incense with which you burned incense in the cities of Judah and outside Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, that the Lord remembered and it came up upon his heart?

And the Lord was no longer able to endure because of the presence of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you did, and your land became into desolation and into impassable place and into a curse, as on this day

because of those whom you made incense offerings, and because of those with whom you sinned against the Lord, and you did not hear the voice of the Lord, and you did not walk in his commandments, and in his law, and in his testimonies, and these evils overtook you

And Jeremiah said to the people and to the women, Hear the word of the Lord.

Thus said the Lord God of Israel: You women, with your mouth you spoke and with your hands you fulfilled, saying, doing, We will do our vows which we vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her. Remaining, you remained in your vows, and doing, you did.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, if my name shall still be in the mouth of all Judah, to say, As the Lord lives, Lord, in all the land of Egypt.

For behold, I am awake over them to harm them and not to do them good, and all Judah, those dwelling in the land of Egypt, shall fail by sword and by famine, until they cease to be.

And those who have been saved from the sword shall return to the land of Judah, few in number; and the remnant of Judah, those who settled in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word will stand.

And this shall be the sign to you, that I will visit upon you for evils.

Thus said the Lord: Behold, I am giving Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy and into the hands of those seeking his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and one seeking his life.

The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah when he was writing these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah

Thus said the Lord concerning you, Baruch

For you said, Alas, alas, because the Lord has added toil upon pain to me; I have lain down in groanings; I found no rest.

Say to him: thus says the Lord: behold, those whom I built up, I tear down, and those whom I planted, I uproot

And you seek great things for yourself; do not seek them, for behold, I am bringing evils upon all flesh, says the Lord, and I will give your life as a found thing in every place where you may walk, there.