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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 16 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Jeremiah 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/15.htm" title="Jeremiah 15">◄</a> Jeremiah 16 <a href="../jeremiah/17.htm" title="Jeremiah 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/jeremiah/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The LORD’s Instruction to His Prophet</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This message from the LORD came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For 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: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Both the most and the least important people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:6 Lit. great and small; i.e. adults and children">a</a></span> will die in this land, and they won’t be buried. People won’t mourn for them. They won’t cut themselves,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:6 A Canaanite mourning practice forbidden by Deut. 14:1">b</a></span> nor will they shave their heads for them.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:6 A common mourning practice in the ancient world">c</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They won’t break bread<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:7 The Heb. lacks bread">d</a></span> for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won’t give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:7 The Heb. lacks father or">e</a></span> mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Don’t go to a banquet to sit with people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:8 Lit. with them">f</a></span> to eat and drink.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“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?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You have done even more evil than your ancestors, and each one of you is stubbornly following his own evil desires,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:12 Lit. following the stubbornness of their evil heart">g</a></span> refusing to listen to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I’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.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Therefore, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought up the Israelis from the land of Egypt.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Rather it will be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelis up from the land of the north and from all the lands to which the LORD<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:15 Lit. he">h</a></span> had banished them.’ I’ll bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:17 Lit. from before me">i</a></span> Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>First 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.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:18 Or their abominable idols">j</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>LORD, my strength and my stronghold,</p> <p class="poetry2">my refuge in a time of difficulty,</p> <p class="poetry2">to you the nations will come,</p> <p class="poetry2">and from the ends of the earth they’ll say,</p> <p class="poetry2">“Surely our ancestors inherited deception,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:19 i.e. false gods or idols">k</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">things that are worthless,</p> <p class="poetry2">and in which there is no profit.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Can a person make a god for himself?</p> <p class="poetry2">They are not gods!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore, I’m about to make them understand;</p> <p class="poetry2">this time I’ll make them understand</p> <p class="poetry2">my power and strength,</p> <p class="poetry2">so they’ll understand that my name is the LORD.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 16:6 Lit. <i>great and small</i>; i.e. adults and children<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 16:6 A Canaanite mourning practice forbidden by Deut. 14:1<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 16:6 A common mourning practice in the ancient world<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 16:7 The Heb. lacks <i>bread</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 16:7 The Heb. lacks <i>father or</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 16:8 Lit. <i>with them</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 16:12 Lit. <i>following the stubbornness of their evil heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 16:15 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 16:17 Lit. <i>from before me</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 16:18 Or <i>their abominable idols</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 16:19 i.e. false gods or idols<br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/jeremiah/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>