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The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in ^(C1)Migdol, ^(C2)Tahpanhes, ^(C3)Memphis, and the land of ^(C4)Pathros, saying,

"This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ^(C1)ruins and no one lives in them,

^(C1)because of their wickedness which they committed to ^(C2)provoke Me to anger by continuing to ^(C3)burn ^(F1)sacrifices and to ^(C4)serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

'Yet I ^(C1)sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this ^(C2)abominable thing which I hate."

'But ^(C1)they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn ^(F1)sacrifices to other gods.

'Therefore My ^(C1)wrath and My anger gushed out and burned in the ^(C2)cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become ruins and a ^(C3)desolation as it is this day.

'Now then, this is what the LORD God of armies, the God of Israel says: "Why are you ^(C1)doing great harm to yourselves, to ^(C2)eliminate from yourselves man and woman, child and infant from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,

^(C1)provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, ^(C2)burning ^(F1)sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you are entering to reside, so that you may be eliminated and become a ^(C3)curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?

"Have you forgotten the ^(C1)wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah and the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

"Yet they ^(C1)have not become ^(F1)contrite even to this day, nor have they feared, nor ^(C2)walked in My Law or My statutes, which I placed before you and before your fathers."'

"Therefore this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'Behold, I am going to ^(C1)set My face against you for a disaster, even to eliminate all Judah.

'And I will ^(C1)take away the remnant of Judah who have set their ^(F1)minds on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all ^(F2)(C2)meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword or meet their end by famine. From the small to the great, they will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a ^(C3)curse, an object of horror, ^(F3)an imprecation, and a disgrace.

'And I will ^(C1)punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with plague.

'So there will be ^(C1)no survivor or refugee for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are ^(F1)(C2)longing to return to live; for none will ^(C3)return except a few refugees.'"