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18 But since[a] we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished. 19 And indeed, when we were making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out[b] to her libations, was it not with the consent of[c] our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes marked with her image,[d] and we poured out to her libations?”

20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who answered him a word, saying,[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:18 Literally “from”
  2. Jeremiah 44:19 Literally “to pour out”
  3. Jeremiah 44:19 Literally “from apart from”
  4. Jeremiah 44:19 Literally “to the copying of her”
  5. Jeremiah 44:20 Literally “to say”