Jeremiah 44:11 starts with the word therefore.
This typically indicates in the book of Jeremiah that words of judgment are to follow. If the probing questions in Jeremiah 44:7–10 offered even a hint of pleading for the people to turn from their wickedness, it is now made clear that judgment is unavoidable. Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah. I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall be consumed.
Those now living in Egypt have shown a stubborn determination to have their own way, but now the Lord shows his determination to have his way. It is the Lord’s word that will stand (see Jeremiah 44:28–29).1 The Lord’s judgment means that they will no longer have a place among his people. They will fall by sword, and by famine and they shall be consumed
in the land of Egypt. Instead of being a people blessed by the Lord and a source of his blessing to the world, they will become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.
The Lord will punish them the way he punished those who lived in Jerusalem. None who have fled to Egypt will return to the land of Judah, except some fugitives.
This small group that does return is a small glimpse of grace that makes the tragedy of those who do not return even more stark.
12 I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.