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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 44 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/44.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/44-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 44</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/43.htm" title="Jeremiah 43">◄</a> Jeremiah 44 <a href="../jeremiah/45.htm" title="Jeremiah 45">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/44-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on the Jews in Egypt<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:1)</font> THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:2)</font> Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:3)</font> because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, <i>by</i> going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:4)</font> yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:5)</font> But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:6)</font> So mine anger and my wrath dropped <i>upon them</i>, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:7)</font> And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit <i>these</i> great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:8)</font> by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:9)</font> Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:10)</font> And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:11)</font> Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold I do set my face against <i>you</i> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:12)</font> to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:13)</font> And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:14)</font> and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that escape.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Stubbornness of the People<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:15)</font> Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:16)</font> <i>As for</i> the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:17)</font> For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as wee and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and <i>so</i> we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:18)</font> But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:19)</font> And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Calamity for the Jews<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:20)</font> Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him <i>these</i> words for answer, saying, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:21)</font> Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:22)</font> And the Lord could no longer bear <i>you</i>, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:23)</font> because of your burning incense, and <i>because</i> of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:24)</font> And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:25)</font> Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled <i>it</i> with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed <i>them</i>. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:26)</font> Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:27)</font> For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:28)</font> And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Juda, who have continued in the land <i>of</i> Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:29)</font> And this <i>shall be</i> a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/44-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><font color=blue>(51:30)</font> Thus said the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/43.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 43"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 43" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/45.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 45"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 45" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>