Jeremiah 44:7 “So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: W…”

Jeremiah 44:7

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

World English Bible

“Therefore now the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining,

American Standard Version

Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Wherfore commit ye this great euill against your soules, to cut off from you man and woman, childe and suckling out of Iudah, and leaue you none to remaine?

Darby Translation

And now thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you no remnant;

Young's Literal Translation

'And, now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls, to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant:

Bible in Basic English

So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

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Cross references

“against”

Habakkuk 2:10 Numbers 16:38 Ezekiel 33:11 Jeremiah 7:19 Proverbs 5:22 Proverbs 15:32

Habakkuk 2:10 · BSB

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Numbers 16:38 · BSB

As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Isr…

Ezekiel 33:11 · BSB

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you…

Jeremiah 7:19 · BSB

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

Proverbs 5:22 · BSB

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

Proverbs 15:32 · BSB

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

“to cut”

Jeremiah 51:22 Jeremiah 9:21 Joshua 6:21 Judges 21:11 Jeremiah 44:8 Jeremiah 44:11

Jeremiah 51:22 · BSB

With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.

Jeremiah 9:21 · BSB

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Joshua 6:21 · BSB

With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Judges 21:11 · BSB

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

Jeremiah 44:8 · BSB

Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and…

Jeremiah 44:11 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.

“child”

Deuteronomy 32:25 1 Samuel 15:3 Lamentations 2:11 1 Samuel 22:19

Deuteronomy 32:25 · BSB

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

1 Samuel 15:3 · BSB

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

1 Samuel 22:19 · BSB

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

“to leave”

Jeremiah 44:14 Jeremiah 44:12 Jeremiah 44:27 Jeremiah 44:28

Jeremiah 44:14 · BSB

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

Jeremiah 44:12 · BSB

And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest,…

Jeremiah 44:27 · BSB

I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.

Jeremiah 44:28 · BSB

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Also

Jeremiah 26:19

Jeremiah 26:19 · BSB

Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to brin…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

8Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.

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