Jeremiah 16 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yahweh Withdraws His Favor

The word^H1697 of Yahweh^H3068 also came^H1961 to me saying^H559,

Jer 16:2“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Jer 16:3For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and daughters born in this place and concerning their mothers who bear them and their fathers who beget them in this land:

Jer 16:4

Jer 16:4“They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”

Jer 16:5

For thus^H3541 says^H559 Yahweh^H3068, “Do not enter^H935 the house^H1004 of the funeral^H4798 meal^H4798, or go^H1980 to lament^H5594 or to console^H5110 them; for I have withdrawn^H622 My peace^H7965 from this^H2088 people^H5971,” declares^H5002 Yahweh^H3068, “My lovingkindness^H2617 and compassion^H7356.

Jer 16:6

Jer 16:6“Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried; they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

Jer 16:7

Jer 16:7“Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of comforting to drink for anyone’s father or mother.

Jer 16:8

Jer 16:8“Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

Jer 16:9

Jer 16:9For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

Jer 16:10

“Now when^H3588 you tell^H5046 this^H2088 people^H5971 all^H3605 these^H428 words^H1697, they will say^H559 to you, ‘For^H5921 what^H4100 reason^H5921^H4100 has Yahweh^H3068 declared^H1696 all^H3605 this^H2088 great^H1419 calamity^H7451 against^H5921 us? And what^H4100 is our iniquity^H5771, or what^H4100 is our sin^H2403 which^H834 we have committed^H2398 against Yahweh^H3068 our God^H430?’

Jer 16:11

Jer 16:11“Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods and served them and worshiped them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law.

Jer 16:12

Jer 16:12‘You too have done evil, even more than your fathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jer 16:13

Jer 16:13‘So I will hurl you out of this land into the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.’

They Shall Know My Name Is Yahweh

(cf. Jer 23:7, 8 )

Jer 16:14

“Therefore^H3651 behold^H2009, days^H3117 are coming^H935,” declares^H5002 Yahweh^H3068, “when it will no^H3808 longer^H5750 be said^H559, ‘As Yahweh^H3068 lives^H2416, who^H834 brought^H5927 up^H5927 the sons^H1121 of Israel^H3478 out of the land^H776 of Egypt^H4714,’

Jer 16:15

Jer 16:15but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

Jer 16:16

“Behold^H2009, I am going to send^H7971 for many^H7227 fishermen^H1728,” declares^H5002 Yahweh^H3068, “and they will fish^H1770 for them; and afterwards^H310^H3651 I will send^H7971 for many^H7227 hunters^H6719, and they will hunt^H6679 them from every^H3605 mountain^H2022 and every^H3605 hill^H1389 and from the crevices^H5357 of the rocks^H5553.

Jer 16:17

Jer 16:17“For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

Jer 16:18

Jer 16:18“I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have profaned My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”

Jer 16:19

O Yahweh^H3068, my strength^H5797 and my strong^H4581 defense^H4581,

And my refuge^H4498 in the day^H3117 of distress^H6869,

To You the nations^H1471 will come^H935

From the ends^H657 of the earth^H776 and say^H559,

“Our fathers^H1 have inherited^H5157 nothing^H389 but lies^H8267,

Futility^H1892 and [fn]things of no^H369 profit^H3276.”

Jer 16:20

Can man^H120 make^H6213 gods^H430 for himself?

Yet they are not gods^H430!

Jer 16:21

“Therefore^H3651 behold^H2009, I am going to make them know^H3045—