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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.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  4. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “but if”
  6. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  7. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  8. Jeremiah 16:15 Or “fathers”
  9. Jeremiah 16:16 Literally “a declaration of”
  10. Jeremiah 16:16 Literally “after thus”
  11. Jeremiah 16:17 Literally “from to the face of me”
  12. Jeremiah 16:18 Literally “I will reward first second”
  13. Jeremiah 16:18 Hebrew “dead body”

14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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