Jeremiah Chapter 16

• Jeremiah 16:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 16:2
  Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Jeremiah 16:3
  “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
• Jeremiah 16:4
  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 concern...
• Jeremiah 16:5
  “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 b...
• Jeremiah 16:6
  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,” s...
• Jeremiah 16:7
  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.
• Jeremiah 16:8
  Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for ...
• Jeremiah 16:9
  “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
• Jeremiah 16:10
  For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirt...
• Jeremiah 16:11
  It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is...
• Jeremiah 16:12
  then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the LORD, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped ...
• Jeremiah 16:13
  You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
• Jeremiah 16:14
  Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day an...
• Jeremiah 16:15
  “Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that it will no more be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the ...
• Jeremiah 16:16
  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 wil...
• Jeremiah 16:17
  “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 ...
• Jeremiah 16:18
  For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
• Jeremiah 16:19
  First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and hav...
• Jeremiah 16:20
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 16:21
  Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”
• Jeremiah 16:22
  “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.”