Jeremiah 44:15-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁵ Then ^(A)all the men who were aware that their wives were burning ^[a]sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, ^[b]including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying, ¹⁶ “As for the ^[c](B)message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ^(C)we are not going to listen to you! ¹⁷ But rather we will certainly ^(D)carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, ^[d]by burning ^[e]sacrifices to the ^(E)queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as ^(F)we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had ^(G)plenty of ^[f]food and were well off and saw no ^[g]misfortune. ¹⁸ But since we stopped burning ^[h]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have ^(H)lacked everything and have ^[i]met our end by the sword and by famine.” ¹⁹ “And,” said the women, “when we were ^(I)burning ^[j]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and ^[k]were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it ^(J)without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes ^[l]in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”