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| Jeremiah 16:1 |
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The word of the LORD also came to me saying,
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| Jeremiah 16:2 |
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"You shall not take a wife for yourself nor
have sons or daughters in this place." |
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| Jeremiah 16:3 |
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For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and
daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and
their fathers who beget them in this land: |
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| Jeremiah 16:4 |
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"They will die of deadly diseases, they will
not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and
come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the
birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth." |
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| Jeremiah 16:5 |
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For thus says the LORD, "Do not enter a house
of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace
from this people," declares the LORD, "My lovingkindness and compassion. |
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| Jeremiah 16:6 |
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"Both great men and small will die in this land;
they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself
or shave his head for them. |
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| Jeremiah 16:7 |
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"Men will not break bread in mourning for them,
to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for
anyone's father or mother. |
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| Jeremiah 16:8 |
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"Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting
to sit with them to eat and drink." |
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| Jeremiah 16:9 |
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For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel: "Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and
in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
groom and the voice of the bride. |
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| Jeremiah 16:10 |
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"Now when you tell this people all these words,
they will say to you, 'For what reason has the LORD declared all this great calamity
against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed
against the LORD our God?' |
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| Jeremiah 16:11 |
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"Then you are to say to them, `It is because
your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have followed other
gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have
not kept My law. |
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| Jeremiah 16:12 |
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'You too have done evil, even more than your
forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness
of his own evil heart, without listening to Me. |
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| Jeremiah 16:13 |
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'So I will hurl you out of this land into the
land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will
serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.' |
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God Will Restore Them |
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| Jeremiah 16:14 |
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"Therefore behold, days are coming," declares
the LORD, "when it will no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up
the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' |
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but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the
sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He
had banished them.' For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to
their fathers. |
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| Jeremiah 16:16 |
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"Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,"
declares the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for
many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from
the clefts of the rocks. |
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| Jeremiah 16:17 |
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"For My eyes are on all their ways; they are
not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. |
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| Jeremiah 16:18 |
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"I will first doubly repay their iniquity and
their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance
with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations." |
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| Jeremiah 16:19 |
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O LORD, 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 say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, Futility and
things of no profit." |
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| Jeremiah 16:20 |
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Can man make gods for himself? Yet they are
not gods! |
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| Jeremiah 16:21 |
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"Therefore behold, I am going to make them know--
This time I will make them know My power and My might; And they shall know that
My name is the LORD." |
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