Jeremiah 44:3
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me, in that they went to offer, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Deuteronomy 29:25(29-24) then men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.
Nehemiah 9:33Howbeit Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for Thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
Jeremiah 4:17As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:29Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:12(9-11) Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it? Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:2-15
Sermon to the Jews in Egypt; Jeremiah's Remonstrance. ( b. c. 587.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, 3 Because of their wickedness which they have… Read the whole commentary →