Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 44:20
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Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
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¶ Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,
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Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
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Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
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Jeremiah 44
18 But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
19 “Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
21 “As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
22 So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
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