Jeremiah 44:15-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women who were standing there—a large crowd—and all the people living in Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt^[a] answered Jeremiah: ¹⁶ “We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ but instead we will continue doing everything that we said we would do. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out drink offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials used to do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food. We were prosperous, and we had no troubles.