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Jeremiah 44:3

Good News Translation

because their people had done evil and had made me angry. They offered sacrifices to other gods and served gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever worshiped.

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You have done right to punish us; you have been faithful, even though we have sinned.

Yes, Jerusalem is doomed! Judah is collapsing! Everything they say and do is against the Lord; they openly insult God himself.

“I, the Lord Almighty, planted Israel and Judah; but now I threaten them with disaster. They have brought this on themselves because they have done wrong; they have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal.”

“When you tell them all this, they will ask you why I have decided to punish them so harshly. They will ask what crime they are guilty of and what sin they have committed against the Lord their God.

Then they will answer that it is because you have abandoned your covenant with me, your God, and have worshiped and served other gods.”

This will happen to them because they did not obey the message that I kept on sending to them through my servants the prophets. They refused to listen.

From the very beginning of their history the people of Israel and the people of Judah have displeased me and made me angry by what they have done.

This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against the Lord by not obeying all his commands.”

Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?

When they ask why I did all these things, tell them, Jeremiah, that just as they turned away from me and served foreign gods in their own land, so they will serve strangers in a land that is not theirs.”

“But I, the Lord, will punish them for these things; I will take revenge on this nation.

But am I really the one they are hurting? No, they are hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves.

Her honor is gone; she is naked and held in contempt. She groans and hides her face in shame. Jerusalem made herself filthy with terrible sin.

But it happened, because her prophets sinned and her priests were guilty of causing the death of innocent people.

God answered, “The people of Israel and Judah are guilty of terrible sins. They have committed murder all over the land and have filled Jerusalem with crime. They say that I, the Lord, have abandoned their country and that I don't see them.

“We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.

“Even your brother or your son or your daughter or the wife you love or your closest friend may secretly encourage you to worship other gods, gods that you and your ancestors have never worshiped.

And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.

They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship.

They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.

Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses.




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