Jeremiah 16:14-18
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14 “However, look, the days are coming”(A)—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’(B) 15 but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north(C) and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.(D)
Punishment of Exile
16 “I am about to send for many fishermen”(E)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks, 17 for my gaze takes in all their ways.(F) They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight. 18 I will first repay them double for their iniquity(G) and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”
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Jeremiah 16:14-18
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God Will Restore Israel
14 Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, “As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,”(A) 15 but “As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he had driven them.” For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their ancestors.(B)
16 I am now sending for many fishermen, says 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 of the clefts of the rocks.(C) 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.(D) 18 And[a] I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.(E)
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- 16.18 Gk: Heb And first
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