Jeremiah 44:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small, will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of them and use their name as a curse. ¹³ I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem—with war, starvation, and disease. ¹⁴ None of the people of Judah who are left and have come to Egypt to live will escape or survive. Not one of them will return to Judah, where they long to live once again. No one will return except a few refugees.”