Jeremiah 16
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1The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
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2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
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3For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
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4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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5For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
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6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
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7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
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8Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
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9For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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10And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
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11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
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12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
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13Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
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14Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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15But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
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16Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
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19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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20Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
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21Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 16:1
Jeremiah 16:2
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it i...Luke 21:23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days...Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, a...Luke 23:29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the b...Matthew 24:19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Jeremiah 16:3
Jeremiah 16:4
Jeremiah 25:33And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even un...Psalms 83:10Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the...Jeremiah 15:2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? the...Zephaniah 1:17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because...
Jeremiah 16:5
Ezekiel 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke...Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come,...Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them...Jeremiah 15:1Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind...Revelation 6:4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that s...
Jeremiah 16:6
Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make...Jeremiah 41:5That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even foursc...Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley...Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks u...Jeremiah 48:37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall...
Jeremiah 16:7
Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing...Ezekiel 24:17Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon...Deuteronomy 26:14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof...Job 42:11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they tha...Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be...
Jeremiah 16:8
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of t...Ecclesiastes 7:2¶ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasti...Amos 6:4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat...Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and...Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove...
Jeremiah 16:9
Hosea 2:11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her...Ezekiel 26:13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps sha...Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jer...Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, th...Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
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Jeremiah 5:19¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God...Deuteronomy 29:24Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? wh...1 Kings 9:8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonish...Jeremiah 13:22¶ And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the g...Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my...
Jeremiah 16:11
Psalms 106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.1 Peter 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gen...1 Kings 9:9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought fort...Jeremiah 5:7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by...Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law...
Jeremiah 16:12
Jeremiah 7:26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck:...Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination o...Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one...Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, whic...Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and i...
Cross References
Jeremiah 16:1
Jeremiah 16:2
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it i...Luke 21:23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days...Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, a...Luke 23:29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the b...Matthew 24:19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Jeremiah 16:3
Jeremiah 16:4
Jeremiah 25:33And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even un...Psalms 83:10Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the...Jeremiah 15:2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? the...Zephaniah 1:17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because...
Jeremiah 16:5
Ezekiel 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke...Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come,...Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them...Jeremiah 15:1Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind...Revelation 6:4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that s...
Jeremiah 16:6
Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make...Jeremiah 41:5That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even foursc...Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley...Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks u...Jeremiah 48:37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall...
Jeremiah 16:7
Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing...Ezekiel 24:17Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon...Deuteronomy 26:14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof...Job 42:11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they tha...Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be...
Jeremiah 16:8
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of t...Ecclesiastes 7:2¶ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasti...Amos 6:4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat...Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and...Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove...
Jeremiah 16:9
Hosea 2:11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her...Ezekiel 26:13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps sha...Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jer...Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, th...Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Jeremiah 16:10
Jeremiah 5:19¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God...Deuteronomy 29:24Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? wh...1 Kings 9:8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonish...Jeremiah 13:22¶ And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the g...Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my...
Jeremiah 16:11
Psalms 106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.1 Peter 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gen...1 Kings 9:9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought fort...Jeremiah 5:7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by...Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law...
Jeremiah 16:12
Jeremiah 7:26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck:...Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination o...Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one...Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, whic...Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and i...