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No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Moreover I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, tell you: ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, so affirm it! <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> God of Israel who rules over all, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’”</p> <p class="title">The Lord Promises Exile (But Also Restoration)</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> our God?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then tell them that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says, ‘It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, say: “A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But for now I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, say: “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then I said,</p><p class="poetry2">“<span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, you give me strength and protect me.</p><p class="poetry2">You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.</p><p class="poetry2">Nations from all over the earth</p><p class="poetry2">will come to you and say,</p><p class="poetry2">‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –</p><p class="poetry2">worthless idols that could not help them at all.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Can people make their own gods?</p><p class="poetry2">No, what they make are not gods at all.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said,</p><p class="poetry2">“So I will now let this wicked people know –</p><p class="poetry2">I will let them know my mighty power in judgment.</p><p class="poetry2">Then they will know that my name is the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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