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Jeremiah 16:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. "

Jeremiah 16:17

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15 but, ‘As the LORD 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 the LORD, “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.”

19 LORD, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

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Jeremiah 16:1

"Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

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"“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”"

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"For the LORD says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:"

Jeremiah 16:4

"“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”"

Jeremiah 16:5

"For the LORD says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says the LORD, “even loving kindness and tender mercies."

Jeremiah 16:6

"Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them."

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