Jeremiah 44:15-19 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other, gods, and all the women standing by, a great convocation,––with all the people who were dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, made answer unto Jeremiah, saying:

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other, gods, and all the women standing by, a great convocation,––with all the people who were dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, made answer unto Jeremiah, saying: ¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee; ¹⁷ but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink–offerings, just as, we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––then were we filled with bread, and became prosperous, and, calamity, saw we none; ¹⁸ whereas, from the very time we ceased burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her drink–offerings, we have lacked, everything,––and, by sword and by famine, have we been consumed. ¹⁹ And, though we, are burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her, drink–offerings, is it, without our men, that we have made to her sacrificial cakes as images of her, and poured out to her, drink–offerings?