Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 44:18

18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by the famine .

Their last Argument is drawn from the evils that had befallen them since they had left worshipping the Sun, Moon and Starrs; thus strangely their omission of that, the cause of their sufferings, their former doing of which was indeed the true cause, they had lost their Husbands in the Siege, and in Battels, and had suffered Famine and Hunger, and all because they had burnt Incense to other Gods, they interpret these Providences into a punishment of them for not doing it as they had formerly used to do. So bad Interpreters are those of Gods Providences, who indulge their lusts in opposition to Gods Law