Jer 16:1 The word of the Lord came also unto me,
saying,
Jer 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or
daughters in this place.
Jer 16:3 For 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;
Jer 16:4 They 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.
Jer 16:5 For 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.
Jer 16:6 Both 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:
Jer 16:7 Neither 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.
Jer 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to
eat and to drink.
Jer 16:9 For 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.
Jer 16:10 And 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?
Jer 16:11 Then 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;
Jer 16:12 And 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:
Jer 16:13 Therefore 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.
Jer 16:14 Therefore, 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;
Jer 16:15 But, 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.
Jer 16:16 Behold, 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.
Jer 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face,
neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Jer 16:18 And 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.
Jer 16:19 O 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.
Jer 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Jer 16:21 Therefore, 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.