Jeremiah 44:7 meaning and explanation

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Jeremiah 44:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah is speaking in Egypt to the Jews who fled there after Jerusalem fell, and in verse 7 God asks them through the prophet why they are harming themselves. The question is pointed because their idolatry was not only an offense against God but a self destructive act.

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