1. This is the word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt — at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the land of Pathros:
2. “This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities; look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them
3. because of their evil ways that provoked Me to anger, going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your fathers did not know.
4. So I sent you all My servants the prophets time and time again, saying: Don’t do this detestable thing that I hate.
5. But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods.
6. So My fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.
7. “So now, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, child and infant from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.