But (A)they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn [a]sacrifices to other gods. Therefore My (B)wrath and My anger gushed out and burned in the (C)cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become ruins and a (D)desolation as it is this day. Now then, this is what the Lord God of armies, the God of Israel says: “Why are you (E)doing great harm to yourselves, to (F)eliminate from yourselves man and woman, child and infant from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:5 Or incense

But they did not listen or pay attention;(A) they did not turn from their wickedness(B) or stop burning incense(C) to other gods.(D) Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out;(E) it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins(F) they are today.

“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster(G) on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women,(H) the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?(I)

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