Jeremiah 16:14-18

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¹⁴ “Therefore the ·time [^Ldays] is coming,” says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the ·people [^Lsons] of Israel out of Egypt.’ ¹⁵ They will say instead, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the ·Israelites [^Lsons of Israel] from the northern land [^CBabylon] and from all the countries where he had ·sent [driven] them…’ And I will ·bring them back [restore them] to the land I gave to their ·ancestors [fathers; ^Ca second Exodus; Is. 40:1–11; 52:10; Hos. 2:14–15].

¹⁶ “I will soon send for many fishermen,” says the Lord. “And they will catch them [^Cthe people of Judah]. After that, I will send for many hunters. And they will hunt them on every mountain and hill and in the ·cracks [clefts] of the rocks. ¹⁷ ·I see everything they do [^LMy eyes are on all their ways]. They ·cannot hide from me the things they do [^Lare not hidden from me]; their ·sin [iniquity] is not ·hidden [concealed] from my eyes. ¹⁸ I will first pay them back twice for ·every one of their sins [^Ltheir iniquities and their sins], because they have made my land unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] with their lifeless idols. They have filled my ·country [inheritance] with their ·hateful idols [^Labominations].”