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Jeremiah Chapter 16

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 16

1The word of the Lord came also to me, saying,
Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 2:1, Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:2
2"You shall not take a wife, neither shall you 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 says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
Jeremiah 16:5, Jeremiah 6:21, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 16:5, Jeremiah 6:21
4They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:33, Jeremiah 25:33, Psalms 83:10, Psalms 83:10, Jeremiah 9:22
5For thus says the Lord, 'Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:23, Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:23, Isaiah 27:11
6Both great and 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 break bread 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
8You shall not 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 says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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
10It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, 'Why has 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 you shall tell them, 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped 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 you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me:
Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 13:10, Ecclesiastes 9:3
13therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.'
Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 4:28, Deuteronomy 4:26
14Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that it shall no more be said, 'As the Lord lives, who 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, '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 will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 3:18, Jeremiah 24:6, Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 3:18
16Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the Lord, "and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Habakkuk 1:14, Habakkuk 1:15, Habakkuk 1:14, Habakkuk 1:15, Amos 4:2
17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 5:21, Jeremiah 23:24, Psalms 90:8
18First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
Isaiah 40:2, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, Isaiah 40:2, Numbers 35:33
19"Lord, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, 'Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 25:4, Jeremiah 17:17, Nahum 1:7, Isaiah 2:2
20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?'"
Psalms 115:4, Psalms 115:8, Isaiah 37:19, Psalms 115:4, Psalms 115:8
21"Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my 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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