Jeremías 44:14

14 Del remanente que huyó a Egipto, con la esperanza de regresar algún día a Judá, no quedarán sobrevivientes. A pesar de que anhelan volver a su tierra solo un puñado lo hará».

Jeremías 44:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 44:14

So that none of the remnant of Judah
Which were left in the land of Judea after the captivity: which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or
remain;
escape either the sword, or the famine, or the pestilence, or remain in the land of Egypt, or in the land of the living; so general should be the destruction: that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have
a desire to return there;
or, "have lift up their souls ^F2 to return there": most earnestly desire it, and have raised hopes and expectations of it; for it seems that those Jews that went into Egypt did not go with a design to settle there for ever; but to return to their own land, when there should be better times, and more safety and security there; particularly when they thought the affair of the death of Gedaliah would be no further inquired into: for none shall return but such as shall escape;
out of the hands of Johanan, and the rest of the captains; and should get out of the land of Egypt before the Chaldeans came into it. Some understand this of those that should escape out of Babylon; that none should return to Judea but those of that captivity, who should be released by the proclamation of Cyrus. Jarchi interprets it of Jeremiah and Baruch, whom Nebuchadnezzar removed to Babylon, when Egypt fell into his hands, in the twenty seventh year of his reign, as is related in the Jewish chronicles ^F3.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Mvpn ta Myavnm) "elevant, [vel] elevantes animam, suam", Pagninus, Vatablus, Calvin; "attolunt animam suam", Schmidt.
F3 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. p. 77.

Jeremías 44:14 In-Context

12 Tomaré a este remanente de Judá —los que estaban resueltos a venir y vivir en Egipto— y los consumiré. Caerán aquí en Egipto, muertos por guerra y hambre. Todos morirán, desde el menos importante hasta el más importante. Serán objeto de condenación, de horror, de maldición y de burla.

13 Los castigaré en Egipto así como lo hice en Jerusalén, con guerra, hambre y enfermedad.

14 Del remanente que huyó a Egipto, con la esperanza de regresar algún día a Judá, no quedarán sobrevivientes. A pesar de que anhelan volver a su tierra solo un puñado lo hará».

15 Entonces todas las mujeres presentes y todos los hombres que sabían que sus esposas habían quemado incienso a los ídolos —una gran multitud de todos los judíos que vivían en el norte y en el sur de Egipto
— le contestaron a Jeremías:

16 —¡No escucharemos tus mensajes del Señor
!