Jeremiah 16:14-21
Lexham English Bible
The Nation’s Return to the Land
14 Therefore[a] look, days are coming,’ declares[b] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,[c] who led up the Israelites[d] from the land of Egypt,” 15 but only[e] “As Yahweh lives,[f] who led up the Israelites[g] from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,” for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors.[h] 16 Look, I am sending for many fishermen,’ declares[i] Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, and afterward[j] I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from before me,[k] and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. 18 And I will first doubly repay[l] their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies[m] 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[n] have inherited only lies,[o]
vanity, and there is no profit in them.
20 Can a human make for himself gods?
Yet they are not gods!”
21 “Therefore[p] look, I am about to let them know,
this time I am going to let them know
my power[q] and my might,
and they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
- Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “but if”
- Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
- Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Jeremiah 16:15 Or “fathers”
- Jeremiah 16:16 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 16:16 Literally “after thus”
- Jeremiah 16:17 Literally “from to the face of me”
- Jeremiah 16:18 Literally “I will reward first second”
- Jeremiah 16:18 Hebrew “dead body”
- Jeremiah 16:19 Or “fathers”
- Jeremiah 16:19 Hebrew “lie”
- Jeremiah 16:21 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 16:21 Literally “hand”
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