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Jeremiah 16
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The Lord’s Instruction to His Prophet

16The word of the Lord came to me:H1697H3068H559
2"You are not to take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place."H3947H802H1121H1323H4725
3For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who give birth to them, and about their fathers who father them in this land:H559H3068H1121H1323H3205H4725H517H3205H1H3209H776
4"They'll die of deadly diseases. People won't mourn for them, nor will they be buried. They'll be dung on the surface of the ground, and they'll come to an end with the sword and with famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the land."H4191H8463H4463H5594H6912H1828H6440H127H3615H2719H7458H5038H3978H5775H8064H929H776
5For this is what the Lord says: "Don't go to a house where there is mourning, don't go to lament, nor to express sorrow to them. For I've taken my peace away from this people," declares the Lord, "as well as gracious love and compassion.H559H3068H935H1004H4798H3212H5594H5110H622H7965H5971H5002H3068H2617H7356
6Both the most and the least important people will die in this land, and they won't be buried. People won't mourn for them. They won't cut themselves, nor will they shave their heads for them.H1419H6996H4191H776H6912H5594H1413H7139
7They won't break bread for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won't give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or mother.H6536H60H5162H4191H3563H8575H8248H1H517
8Don't go to a banquet to sit with people to eat and drink."H935H1004H4960H3427H398H8354
9For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "In this place I'm about to bring an end to the sounds of happiness and rejoicing, the sounds of the bridegroom and the bride. I'll do it in front of your eyes and in your time.5H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7673H4725H5869H3117H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618
10"When you speak all these words to this people, they'll say to you, 'Why has the Lord pronounced all this disaster against us?What is our iniquity, and what is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?H5046H5971H1697H559H3068H1696H1419H7451H5771H2403H2398H3068H430
11Then say to them, 'It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' declares the Lord. 'They followed other gods, served them, worshipped them, abandoned me, and didn't keep my Law.H559H1H5800H5002H3068H3212H310H312H430H5647H7812H5800H8104H8451
12You have done even more evil than your ancestors, and each one of you is stubbornly following his own evil desires, refusing to listen to me.H6213H7489H1H2009H1980H376H310H8307H7451H3820H8085
13I'll throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, and I'll show you no favor.'H2904H776H776H3045H1H5647H312H430H3119H3915H5414H2594
14"Therefore, days are coming," declares the Lord, "when it will no longer be said, 'As surely as the Lord lives, who brought up the Israelites from the land of Egypt.'H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H4714
15Rather it will be said, 'As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up from the land of the north and from all the lands to which the Lord had banished them.' I'll bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H6828H776H5080H7725H127H5414H1
16"I'm about to send many fishermen, declares the Lord, and they'll catch them. Afterwards, I'll send for many hunters and they'll hunt for them on every mountain and hill and in the crevices of the rocks.H7971H7227H1771H1728H5002H3068H1770H310H7971H7227H6719H6679H2022H1389H5357H5553
17For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.H5869H1870H5641H6440H5771H6845H5048H5869
18First I'll repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the dead bodies of their detestable images, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations."H7223H7999H5771H2403H4932H2490H776H4390H5159H5038H8251H8441
19Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit."H3068H5797H4581H4498H3117H6869H1471H935H657H776H559H1H5157H8267H1892H3276
20Can a person make a god for himself?They are not gods!H120H6213H430H430
21Therefore, I'm about to make them understand; this time I'll make them understand my power and strength, so they'll understand that my name is the Lord.H6471H3045H3045H3027H1369H3045H8034H3068


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