20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
17 We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.
18 But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."
19 The women added, "When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes like her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?"
20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
21 "Did not the Lord remember and think about the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your fathers, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?
22 When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became an object of cursing and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.
44:20Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,
44:20And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:
44:20Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
44:20And Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,
44:20Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
44:20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,
44:20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
44:20And Jeremiah saith unto all the people, concerning the men and concerning the women, and concerning all the people who are answering him, saying:
44:20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,