Jeremiah 16 (NET)

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Jeremiah 16:3³For I, the Lord, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 16:5 Jer 16:9 Jer 6:21

Jeremiah 16:4⁴They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:33 Ps 83:10 Jer 9:22 Jer 15:2-3 Jer 22:18-19 Jer 34:20 Zeph 1:17 2 Kgs 9:10 Isa 18:6 Jer 7:33

Jeremiah 16:5⁵“Moreover I, the Lord, tell you: ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 24:16-23 Isa 27:11 Deut 31:17 Jer 15:1-4 Jer 16:6-7 Rev 6:4 2 Chr 15:5-6 Zech 8:10

Jeremiah 16:6⁶Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 14:1 Jer 41:5 Jer 47:5 Lev 19:28 Isa 22:12 Jer 48:37 Ezek 9:5-6 Isa 24:2 Isa 9:14-17 Jer 13:13

Jeremiah 16:7⁷No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 24:17 Hos 9:4 Deut 26:14 Job 42:11 Prov 31:6-7

Jeremiah 16:8⁸“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 7:2-4 Jer 15:17 Amos 6:4-6 Isa 22:12-14 1 Cor 5:11 Eph 5:11 Luke 17:27-29 Matt 24:38 Ps 26:4

Jeremiah 16:9⁹For I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 26:13 Hos 2:11 Jer 25:10 Jer 7:34 Isa 24:7-12 Rev 18:22-23

Jeremiah 16:10¹⁰“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:19 1 Kgs 9:8-9 Deut 29:24-25 Jer 13:22 Hos 12:8 Jer 2:35 Jer 22:8-9

Jeremiah 16:11¹¹Then tell them that the Lord says, ‘It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:35-41 1 Kgs 9:9 1 Pet 4:3 Deut 29:25-26 Ezek 11:21 Jer 22:9 Jer 5:7-9 Jer 8:2 Neh 9:26-29 Dan 9:10-12

Jeremiah 16:12¹²And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 13:10 Jer 7:26 Eccl 9:3 Jer 9:14 1 Sam 15:23 Jer 7:24 Judg 2:19 Mark 7:21 2 Tim 3:13 Deut 29:19

Jeremiah 16:13¹³So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:36 Deut 4:26-28 Jer 15:14 Jer 17:4 2 Chr 7:20 Deut 30:17-18 Lev 18:27-28 Deut 28:63-65 Deut 29:28 Jer 14:8

Jeremiah 16:14¹⁴Yet I, the Lord, say: “A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:7-8 Deut 15:15 Exod 20:2 Hos 3:4-5 Mic 6:4

Jeremiah 16:15¹⁵But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:6 Jer 3:18 Jer 32:37 Amos 9:14 Ezek 36:24 Ezek 39:28 Isa 11:11-16 Ps 106:47 Deut 30:3-5 Ezek 34:12-14

Jeremiah 16:16¹⁶But for now I, the Lord, say: “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 1:14-15 Amos 4:2 Mic 7:2 Rev 6:15-17 1 Sam 26:20 Amos 9:1-3 Gen 10:9 Isa 24:17-18 Jer 25:9 1 Sam 24:11

Jeremiah 16:17¹⁷For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 15:3 Jer 23:24 Prov 5:21 Ps 90:8 Job 34:21-22 1 Cor 4:5 2 Chr 16:9 Heb 4:13 Jer 32:19 Ezek 9:9

Jeremiah 16:18¹⁸Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 40:2 Num 35:33-34 Ezek 11:21 Jer 17:18 Jer 2:7 Rev 18:6 Ezek 11:18 Ezek 43:7-9 Isa 61:7 Jer 3:9

Jeremiah 16:19¹⁹Then I said, “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods— worthless idols that could not help them at all.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 25:4 Nah 1:7 Isa 2:2-3 Jer 17:17 1 Pet 1:18 Hab 2:18-19 Isa 44:10 Jer 10:14-15 Jer 10:5 Jer 2:11