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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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><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="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Disaster Predicted<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are conceived in this place, and concerning their mothers who give birth to them, and concerning their fathers, from whose stock they have been born in this land: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They will die from grievous mortal illnesses. They will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be like manure on the face of the earth. And they will be consumed by sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the land.”<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For thus says the Lord: “You shall not enter the house of feasting, and you shall not go to mourn or to console them. For I have taken away from this people, says the Lord, my peace, my mercy, and my pity. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Both the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not be mourned. And no one will cut themselves or make themselves bald on their behalf. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they will not break bread among themselves for the sake of him who mourns, so as to console him over the dead. And they will not give them a chalice to drink, so as to console them over their father and mother. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And so, you shall not enter the house of feasting, so as to sit with them, and to eat and drink.” <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will take away from this place, in your sight and in your days, the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when you announce all these words to this people, they will say to you: ‘Why would the Lord pronounce all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you shall say to them: It is because your fathers abandoned me, says the Lord. And they went after strange gods, and they served them and adored them. And they abandoned me, and they did not keep my law. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But you have acted even worse than your fathers. For behold, each one walks after the depravity of his own evil heart, so that he does not listen to me. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And so, I will cast you out of this land, into a land that you do not know, and that your fathers did not know. And in that place, you will serve, day and night, strange gods who will not give you rest.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">God Will Restore Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who led the sons of Israel away from the land of Egypt,’ <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but instead, ‘As the Lord lives, who led the sons of Israel away from the land of the north,’ and from all the lands to which I have cast them out. And I will lead them back into their own land, which I gave to their fathers.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Behold, I will send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they will fish for them. And after this, I will send many hunters to them, and they will hunt for them on every mountain, and on every hilltop, and in the caverns of the rocks. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: ‘Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.’<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Concerning this, behold: I will make it clear to them, in this turn. I will reveal to them my hand and my virtue. And they will know that the Lord is my name.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>