Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 16

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Jeremiah 16 . 1 , The prophet , under the types of abstaining from marriage , from houses of mourning and feasting , foreshews the utter ruin of the Jews; Jeremiah 16 . 10 , because they were worse than their fathers; Jeremiah 16 . 14 , Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt; Jeremiah 16 . 16 , God will doubly recompense their idolatry.

Jeremiah 16:1

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 16:1 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:2

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

Jeremiah 16:2 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:3

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

Jeremiah 16:3 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:4

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:5

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 16:5 · BSB

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mourning or , mourning feast

Jeremiah 16:6

“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

Jeremiah 16:6 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:7

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

Jeremiah 16:7 · BSB

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or , break bread

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Jeremiah 16:8

You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

Jeremiah 16:8 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:9

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

Jeremiah 16:9 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:10

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

Jeremiah 16:10 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:11

Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

Jeremiah 16:11 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

Jeremiah 16:12 · BSB

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or , stubbornness

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Jeremiah 16:13

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Jeremiah 16:13 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:14

Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’

Jeremiah 16:14 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:15

Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

Jeremiah 16:15 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:16

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 16:16 · BSB

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I will raise up enemies against them , some of whom shall destroy them by wiles , and others shall ruin them by violence. The Chaldeans shall make an entire conquest of the whole land , and strip it of its riches and inhabitants; and those who may escape one party shall fall into the hands of another

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Jeremiah 16:17

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

Jeremiah 16:17 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:18

And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

Jeremiah 16:19 · BSB

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Jeremiah 16:20

Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

Jeremiah 16:20 · BSB

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Psalm 115 . 4-8

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Jeremiah 16:21

“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

Jeremiah 16:21 · BSB

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The Lord or , JEHOVAH

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In the wider web3 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Echoes Luke 5:10 → Jeremiah 16:16
Trajectories
New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern)
Chiasms
Shaped Jeremiah 16:1–21
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