13 For I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,

14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they [a]have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but [b]such as shall escape.

15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:14 Hebrew, lift up their souls.
  2. Jeremiah 44:14 Meaning, but a few.

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