Jeremiah 16
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1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 "You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.
3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are conceived in this place, and concerning their mothers who give birth to them, and concerning their fathers, from whose stock they have been born in this land:
4 They will die from grievous mortal illnesses. They will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be like manure on the face of the earth. And they will be consumed by sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the land."
5 For thus says the Lord: "You shall not enter the house of feasting, and you shall not go to mourn or to console them. For I have taken away from this people, says the Lord, my peace, my mercy, and my pity.
6 Both the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not be mourned. And no one will cut themselves or make themselves bald on their behalf.
7 And they will not break bread among themselves for the sake of him who mourns, so as to console him over the dead. And they will not give them a chalice to drink, so as to console them over their father and mother.
8 And so, you shall not enter the house of feasting, so as to sit with them, and to eat and drink."
9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will take away from this place, in your sight and in your days, the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
10 And when you announce all these words to this people, they will say to you: 'Why would the Lord pronounce all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?'
11 And you shall say to them: It is because your fathers abandoned me, says the Lord. And they went after strange gods, and they served them and adored them. And they abandoned me, and they did not keep my law.
12 But you have acted even worse than your fathers. For behold, each one walks after the depravity of his own evil heart, so that he does not listen to me.
13 And so, I will cast you out of this land, into a land that you do not know, and that your fathers did not know. And in that place, you will serve, day and night, strange gods who will not give you rest.
14 Therefore, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, 'As the Lord lives, who led the sons of Israel away from the land of Egypt,'
15 but instead, 'As the Lord lives, who led the sons of Israel away from the land of the north,' and from all the lands to which I have cast them out. And I will lead them back into their own land, which I gave to their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they will fish for them. And after this, I will send many hunters to them, and they will hunt for them on every mountain, and on every hilltop, and in the caverns of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes.
18 But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
19 "O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: 'Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.'
20 How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?"
21 "Concerning this, behold: I will make it clear to them, in this turn. I will reveal to them my hand and my virtue. And they will know that the Lord is my name."
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Jeremiah 16
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No Marriage for Jeremiah
1The word of the Lord came to me: 2“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place. 3For this is what the Lord says concerning sons and daughters born in this place as well as concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land: 4They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the face of the earth. # Jr 8:2; 9:22; 25:33 They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land. # Dt 28:26; Is 18:6; Jr 7:33
5“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place. # Lit house of mourning Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed My peace from these people” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “as well as My faithful love and compassion. # Ps 25:6; 40:11; 69:16 6Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or # Dt 14:1 shave his head for them. # This custom demonstrated pagan mourning rituals. 7Food won’t be provided for the mourner # Dt 26:14; Ezk 24:17; Hs 9:4 to comfort him because of the dead. A cup of consolation won’t be given him because of the loss of his father or mother. 8You must not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink. 9For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride. # Jr 7:34; 25:10; 33:11
Abandoning the Lord and His Law
10“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the Lord declared all this great disaster against us? # Jr 5:19 What is our guilt? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? ’ 11Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me” # Dt 29:25; Jr 1:16; 2:13,17,19; 5:19; 17:13; 22:9 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. # Dt 29:26 Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. 12You did more evil than your fathers. # Jr 7:26 Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me. 13So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your fathers are not familiar with. # Jr 15:14; 17:4; 22:26 There you will worship other gods # Dt 4:28; 28:36,64 both day and night, for I will not grant you grace. # Or compassion
14“However, take note! The days are coming” # Jr 7:32; 19:6; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52 — the Lord’s declaration — “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’ # Jr 23:7-8 15but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north # Jr 3:18 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. # Jr 23:8
Punishment of Exile
16“I am about to send for many fishermen” # Am 4:2; Hab 1:14-15 — 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, 17for My gaze takes in all their ways. # Jr 32:19; 2Ch 16:9; Jb 34:21; Ps 90:8; Pr 5:21 They are not concealed from Me, and their guilt is not hidden from My sight. 18I will first repay them double for their guilt # Jr 17:18 and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”
19Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in a time of distress, # Ps 37:39; Nah 1:7
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols # Jr 8:19; 10:8,15; 14:22 of no benefit at all.”
20Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods. # Gn 1:26; Jr 2:11
21“Therefore, I am about to inform them,
and this time I will make them know
My power and My might;
then they will know that My name is Yahweh.” # Jr 33:2
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