Focused Passage

Jeremiah 16:16-18

Jeremiah’s Sign-Life, Judah’s Exile, and the Nations’ Confession

The chapter moves from Jeremiah's commanded unmarried and childless sign-life, to the prohibition against mourning, to the prohibition against feasting, to the people's question about why disaster is coming, to the LORD's answer of ancestral and intensified sin, to the announcement of exile, to a future restoration greater than the Exodus, to the sending of fishermen and hunters to capture sinners, and finally to Jeremiah's confession of the LORD as strength and refuge and the nations' future confession that inherited idols are worthless.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

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Verse 16

Cross-references

Amos 4:2Classic cross-references Habakkuk 1:14Classic cross-references Micah 7:2Classic cross-references Amos 9:3Classic cross-references Ezekiel 32:3Classic cross-references

Original words

But for nowהִנְנִ֨יH2005Interjection | first person common singularI will send forשֹׁלֵ֜חַH7971Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularmanyרַבִּ֛יםH7227Adjective - masculine pluralfishermenלְדַוָּגִיםH1728Preposition-l | Noun - masculine pluraldeclaresנְאֻם־H5002Noun - masculine singular constructthe LORDיְהוָ֖הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularand they will catch themוְדִיג֑וּםH1770Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine pluralAfter thatוְאַֽחֲרֵי־H310Conjunctive waw | Preposition. . .כֵ֗ןH3651AdverbI will sendאֶשְׁלַח֙H7971Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singularfor manyלְרַבִּ֣יםH7227Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine pluralhuntersצַיָּדִ֔יםH6719Noun - masculine pluraland they will hunt them downוְצָד֞וּםH6679Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine pluralonמֵעַ֤לH5921Preposition-meveryכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructmountainהַר֙H2022Noun - masculine singular. . .וּמֵעַ֣לH5921Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m. . .כָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructand hillגִּבְעָ֔הH1389Noun - feminine singulareven from the cleftsוּמִנְּקִיקֵ֖יH5357Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural constructof the rocksהַסְּלָעִֽים׃H5553Article | Noun - masculine plural

Verse 17

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 16:9Classic cross-references Proverbs 15:3Classic cross-references Jeremiah 23:24Classic cross-references Proverbs 5:21Classic cross-references Psalms 51:9Classic cross-references

Original words

Forכִּ֤יH3588ConjunctionMy eyesעֵינַי֙H5869Noun - cdc | first person common singular[are] onעַל־H5921Prepositionallכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructtheir waysדַּרְכֵיהֶ֔םH1870Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine pluralThey are notלֹ֥אH3808Adverb - Negative particlehiddenנִסְתְּר֖וּH5641Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common pluralfrom My faceמִלְּפָנָ֑יH6440Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singularand their guiltעֲוֺנָ֖םH5771Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine pluralis notוְלֹֽא־H3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particleconcealedנִצְפַּ֥ןH6845Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singularfromמִנֶּ֥גֶדH5048Preposition-mMy eyesעֵינָֽי׃H5869Noun - cdc | first person common singular

Verse 18

Cross-references

Jeremiah 2:7Classic cross-references Isaiah 40:2Classic cross-references Isaiah 65:6Classic cross-references Numbers 35:33Classic cross-references 1 Timothy 5:17Classic cross-references

Original words

And I will firstרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֗הH7223Adjective - feminine singularrepay themוְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֣יH7999Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singulardoubleמִשְׁנֵ֤הH4932Noun - masculine singular constructtheir iniquityעֲוֺנָם֙H5771Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine pluraland their sinוְחַטָּאתָ֔םH2403Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine pluralbecauseעַ֖לH5921Prepositionthey have defiledחַלְּלָ֣םH2490Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural-אֶת־H853Direct object markerMy landאַרְצִ֑יH776Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularwith the carcassesבְּנִבְלַ֤תH5038Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular constructof their detestable idolsשִׁקּֽוּצֵיהֶם֙H8251Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine pluraland they have filledמָלְא֖וּH4390Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural-אֶת־H853Direct object markerMy inheritanceנַחֲלָתִֽי׃סH5159Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularwith their abominationsוְתוֹעֲב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔םH8441Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural

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