Jeremiah 44:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But ever since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring drink offerings to her, we have been destroyed by the sword and by famine.”

¹⁹ And the women added,^[a] “Do you think that we burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour drink offerings to her without our husbands’ support when we make cakes in her image and pour drink offerings to her?”

²⁰ Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women alike, in fact everyone who had spoken this way: