Jeremiah 16:10-21

English Standard Version

¹⁰ “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ ¹¹ then you shall say to them: ^(B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and ^(C)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, ¹² and because ^(D)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, ^(E)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. ¹³ Therefore ^(F)I will hurl you out of this land into ^(G)a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, ^(H)and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

The Lord Will Restore Israel

^14 (I)“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ^(J)‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ ¹⁵ but ^(K)‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel ^(L)out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For ^(M)I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.

¹⁶ “Behold, ^(N)I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out ^(O)of the clefts of the rocks. ¹⁷ For ^(P)my eyes are on all their ways. ^(Q)They are not hidden from me, ^(R)nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. ¹⁸ But first ^(S)I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and ^(T)have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

²¹ “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that ^(Z)my name is the Lord.”