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Jeremiah 44:18
Jeremiah 44:18 is verse 18 of Jeremiah chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
King James Version
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
World English Bible
But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
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Jeremiah 44:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 “As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
18 But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
19 “Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 40:12they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
Numbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
Numbers 11:6But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Psalms 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
Psalms 73:10So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
Psalms 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Psalms 73:14For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
Malachi 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”