Jeremiah Chapter 43

Jeremiah 43 — English translation

Translation: THE JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition. Verse numbers match the Hebrew text below.

1. 1When Jeremiah had finished speaking all these words to all the people—all the words of the E TERNAL their God, with which the E TERNAL their God had sent him to them—
2. 2Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The E TERNAL our God did not send you to say, ‘Don’t go to Egypt and sojourn there’!
3. 3It is Baruch son of Neriah who is inciting you against us, so that we will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans to be killed or to be exiled to Babylon!”
4. 4So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and the rest of the people did not obey G OD ’s command to remain in the land of Judah.
5. 5Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers took the entire remnant of Judah—those who had returned from all the countries to which they had been scattered and had sojourned in the land of Judah,
6. 6men, women, and children; and the daughters of the king and all the people whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guards had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, as well as the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch son of Neriah—
7. 7and they went to Egypt. They did not obey G OD . They arrived at Tahpanhes,
8. 8and the word of G OD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:
9. 9Get yourself large stones, and embed them in mortar in the brick structure at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, with some Judeans looking on.
10. 10And say to them: “Thus said G OD of Hosts, the God of Israel: I am sending for My servant King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded. He will spread out his pavilion over them.
11. 11He will come and attack the land of Egypt, delivering Those destined for the plague, to the plague, Those destined for captivity, to captivity, And those destined for the sword, to the sword.
12. 12And I will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn them down and carry them off. He shall wrap himself up in the land of Egypt, as a shepherd wraps himself up in his garment. And he shall depart from there in safety.
13. 13He shall smash the obelisks of the Temple of the Sun that is in the land of Egypt, and he shall burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.”

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