Jeremiah 16
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Jeremiah is Commanded Not to Marry
1And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,#Literally “to say” 2“You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place.” 3For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: 4“They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies#Hebrew “dead body” will become food for the birds#Hebrew “bird” of the air, and for the wild animals#Hebrew “wild animal” of the earth.”
5For thus says Yahweh, “You must not enter the house of the funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, “the loyal love and the compassion. 6Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them. 7And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers,#Hebrew “father” or for their mothers.#Hebrew “mother” 8And you shall not enter the house of the banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink.”
9For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Look, I am about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 10And then#Literally “And it will happen” when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, ‘Why#Literally “On what” has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?’ 11Then you shall say to them, ‘Because#Literally “On that” your ancestors#Or “fathers” have forsaken me,’ declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, ‘and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws. 12And you have behaved badly#Literally “you have done evil to do” more than your ancestors,#Or “fathers” and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me. 13So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,#Or “fathers” and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor.
The Nation’s Return to the Land
14Therefore#Literally “To thus” look, days are coming,’ declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,#Literally “The life of Yahweh” who led up the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” from the land of Egypt,” 15but only#Literally “but if” “As Yahweh lives,#Literally “The life of Yahweh” who led up the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” 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.#Or “fathers” 16Look, I am sending for many fishermen,’ declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, and afterward#Literally “after thus” 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. 17For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from before me,#Literally “from to the face of me” and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. 18And I will first doubly repay#Literally “I will reward first second” their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies#Hebrew “dead body” of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.’ ”
19O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold,
and my refuge in the day of distress,
to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth,
and they will say, “Our ancestors#Or “fathers” have inherited only lies,#Hebrew “lie”
vanity, and there is no profit in them.
20Can a human make for himself gods?
Yet they are not gods!”
21“Therefore#Literally “To thus” look, I am about to let them know,
this time I am going to let them know
my power#Literally “hand” and my might,
and they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 16
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The LORD Tells Jeremiah Not to Marry
1The Lord spoke his word to me. He said, 2“Don’t marry! Don’t have any sons or daughters in this place! 3This is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this place and about the mothers and fathers who have children in this land: 4They will die horrible deaths. No one will mourn for them or bury them. They will be like manure on the ground. Wars and famines will bring them to an end. Their bodies will be food for birds and animals.
5“This is what the Lord says: Don’t go into a house where people are grieving. Don’t go to mourn or to grieve for them. I’m taking my peace, love, and compassion away from these people,” declares the Lord. 6“Old and young alike will die in this land. No one will mourn for them or bury them. No one will cut his own body or shave his own head for them. 7No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn the dead. No one will give a consoling drink to those who have lost their fathers or mothers.
8“Don’t even go into a home where there is a banquet. Don’t sit with them to eat and drink. 9This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I’m going to put a stop to the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms in this place. This will happen in your lifetime, while you watch.
10“When you tell the people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why does the Lord threaten us with all these disasters? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against the Lord our God?’ 11Then say to them, ‘It’s because your ancestors abandoned me, declares the Lord. They followed other gods, served them, worshiped them, and abandoned me. They didn’t obey my teachings. 12You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from obeying me. 13So I will throw you out of this land into a land that you and your ancestors haven’t heard of. There you will serve other gods day and night because I will no longer have pity on you.’
14“That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when people will no longer begin an oath with, ‘The Lord brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. As the Lord lives….’ 15But they will say, ‘The Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of the north and all the lands where he had scattered them. As the Lord lives….’ They will say this because I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors.
16“I’m going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch the people of Israel. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt for them on every mountain and hill and even in the cracks in the rocks. 17I see everything that they do. They can’t hide anything from me. Their wickedness can’t be hidden; I can see it. 18First, I will have them pay twice as much for their wickedness and their sin, because they have polluted my land. They have filled my property with the lifeless statues of their detestable and disgusting idols.”
19The Lord is my strength and my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
Nations come to you from the most distant parts of the world
and say, “Our ancestors have inherited lies,
worthless and unprofitable gods.”
20“People can’t make gods for themselves.
They aren’t really gods.
21That is what I will teach them.
This time I will make my power and my strength known to them.
Then they will know that my name is the Lord.”
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