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Jeremiah Chapter 16

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 16

1The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 2:1, Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:2
2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
1 Corinthians 7:26, 1 Corinthians 7:27, Luke 21:23, Genesis 19:14, Luke 23:29
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;
Jeremiah 16:5, Jeremiah 6:21, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 16:5, Jeremiah 6:21
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.
Jeremiah 25:33, Jeremiah 25:33, Psalms 83:10, Psalms 83:10, Jeremiah 9:22
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.
Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:23, Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:23, Isaiah 27:11
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:
Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:1, Jeremiah 41:5, Jeremiah 47:5, Jeremiah 41:5
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.
Hosea 9:4, Ezekiel 24:17, Hosea 9:4, Ezekiel 24:17, Deuteronomy 26:14
8Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
Jeremiah 15:17, Ecclesiastes 7:2, Ecclesiastes 7:4, Jeremiah 15:17, Ecclesiastes 7:2
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.
Hosea 2:11, Ezekiel 26:13, Jeremiah 7:34, Hosea 2:11, Ezekiel 26:13
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?
Jeremiah 5:19, Jeremiah 5:19, Deuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:25, 1 Kings 9:8
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;
Psalms 106:35, Psalms 106:41, Psalms 106:35, Psalms 106:41, 1 Peter 4:3
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:
Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 13:10, Ecclesiastes 9:3
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.
Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 4:28, Deuteronomy 4:26
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;
Jeremiah 23:7, Jeremiah 23:8, Jeremiah 23:7, Jeremiah 23:8, Exodus 20:2
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.
Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 3:18, Jeremiah 24:6, Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 3:18
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.
Habakkuk 1:14, Habakkuk 1:15, Habakkuk 1:14, Habakkuk 1:15, Amos 4:2
17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 5:21, Jeremiah 23:24, Psalms 90:8
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.
Isaiah 40:2, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, Isaiah 40:2, Numbers 35:33
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.
Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 25:4, Jeremiah 17:17, Nahum 1:7, Isaiah 2:2
20Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Psalms 115:4, Psalms 115:8, Isaiah 37:19, Psalms 115:4, Psalms 115:8
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.
Psalms 9:16, Psalms 9:16, Jeremiah 33:2, Psalms 83:18, Jeremiah 33:2

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