Jeremiah 16 : 1 (LXXEN)
And thou shalt not take a wife, saith the Lord God of Israel:
Jeremiah 16 : 2 (LXXEN)
and there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.
Jeremiah 16 : 3 (LXXEN)
For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that have begotten them in this land;
Jeremiah 16 : 4 (LXXEN)
They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.
Jeremiah 16 : 5 (LXXEN)
Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.
Jeremiah 16 : 6 (LXXEN)
They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves for them:
Jeremiah 16 : 7 (LXXEN)
and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
Jeremiah 16 : 8 (LXXEN)
Thou shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
Jeremiah 16 : 9 (LXXEN)
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 16 : 10 (LXXEN)
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?
Jeremiah 16 : 11 (LXXEN)
Then thou shalt say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law;
Jeremiah 16 : 12 (LXXEN)
(and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);
Jeremiah 16 : 13 (LXXEN)
therefore I will cast you off from this good land into [Gr. the land] a land which neither ye nor your fathers have known; and ye shall serve there other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.
Jeremiah 16 : 14 (LXXEN)
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 16 : 15 (LXXEN)
but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.
Jeremiah 16 : 16 (LXXEN)
Behold, I will send [Gr. the many] many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16 : 17 (LXXEN)
For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.
Jeremiah 16 : 18 (LXXEN)
And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.
Jeremiah 16 : 19 (LXXEN)
O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
Jeremiah 16 : 20 (LXXEN)
Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?
Jeremiah 16 : 21 (LXXEN)
Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.
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