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18 And I will first doubly repay[a] their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies[b] of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.’”

19 O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold,
    and my refuge in the day of distress,
to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth,
    and they will say, “Our ancestors[c] have inherited only lies,[d]
    vanity, and there is no profit in them.
20 Can a human make for himself gods?
    Yet they are not gods!”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:18 Literally “I will reward first second”
  2. Jeremiah 16:18 Hebrew “dead body”
  3. Jeremiah 16:19 Or “fathers”
  4. Jeremiah 16:19 Hebrew “lie”