Jeremiah 44:2-7

2“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in 1ruins and no one lives in them,

32because of their wickedness which they committed so as to 3provoke Me to anger by continuing to 4burn 5sacrifices and to 6serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

4Yet I 7sent you all My servants the prophets, 8again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this 9abominable thing which I hate.”

5But 10they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn 11sacrifices to other gods.

6Therefore My 12wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the 13cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a ruin and a 14desolation as it is this day.

7Now then thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you 15doing great harm to yourselves, so as to 16cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,