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The Lord’s Message to the Jews in Egypt

44 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis,[a] and also in Upper Egypt:[b]

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says. You have seen the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah. You see that today they are desolate and no one lives there because they committed evil and provoked me to anger. They burned incense to serve other gods that neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:1 Hebrew Noph. English usually uses the Greek forms of the names of Egyptian cities.
  2. Jeremiah 44:1 Hebrew Pathros, the southern part of Egypt