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Jeremiah 44:18

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.”

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ASV

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וּמִן־u.min-and fromH4480 →
אָ֡ז'azthenH227 →
חָדַ֜לְנוּcha.Dal.nuwe ceasedH2308 →
לְקַטֵּ֨רle.ka.Terto make smokeH6999 →
לִמְלֶ֧כֶתlim.Le.khetto [the] queen ofH4446 →
הַשָּׁמַ֛יִםha.sha.Ma.yimthe heavensH8064 →
וְהַסֵּֽךְ־ve.ha.sekh-and to pour outH5258 →
לָ֥הּlahto <the> her
נְסָכִ֖יםne.sa.Khimdrink offeringsH5262 →
חָסַ֣רְנוּcha.Sar.nuwe have lackedH2637 →
כֹ֑לKholeverythingH3605 →
וּבַחֶ֥רֶבu.va.Che.revand by the swordH2719 →
וּבָרָעָ֖בu.va.ra.'Avand by the famineH7458 →
תָּֽמְנוּ׃Ta.me.nuwe have met our endH8552 →

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Malachi 3:13–15“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”Numbers 11:5–6We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.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.Jeremiah 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”Psalms 73:9–15They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.Jeremiah 44:23Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”Jeremiah 44:27I 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.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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