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15 Rather it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelis up from the land of the north and from all the lands to which the Lord[a] had banished them.’ I’ll bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.

16 “I’m about to send many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they’ll catch them. Afterwards, I’ll send for many hunters and they’ll hunt for them on every mountain and hill and in the crevices of the rocks. 17 For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight.[b] Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:15 Lit. he
  2. Jeremiah 16:17 Lit. from before me

15 but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north(A) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’(B) For I will restore(C) them to the land I gave their ancestors.(D)

16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(E) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(F) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(G) 17 My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden(H) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.(I)

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