¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives were making smoke offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,^{[a] 16} “Concerning the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you! ¹⁷ But certainly we will do everything^[b] that went out from our mouths,^[c] to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors,^[d] our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for then we had enough to eat,^[e] and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster. ¹⁸ But since^[f] we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished. ¹⁹ And indeed, when we were making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out^[g] to her libations, was it not with the consent of^[h] our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes marked with her image,^[i] and we poured out to her libations?”