Jeremiah 44:16-18

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁶ ‘We do not believe that your message really comes from the Lord. ¹⁷ So we will continue to do what we have promised to do. We will make sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven. We will pour out drink offerings to her.^[a] That is what our ancestors, our kings and our leaders did when we lived in Jerusalem and in the other towns of Judah. When we did that, we had plenty of food to eat. We enjoyed a good life and we had no troubles. ¹⁸ But since we stopped offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven, we have not had those good things. War and famine have been killing our people.’