Jeremiah 44:18-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had scarceness of all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”

¹⁹ And the women said, “And when we burnt incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to make her glad and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands?”

²⁰ Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,