ULT JER Chapter 16

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16 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 “You shall not take to you a wife and there shall not be to you sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus says Yahweh about the sons and the daughters, the ones born in this place, and about their mothers who bear them, and about their fathers, the ones fathering them in this land, 4 “They will die deaths of diseases. They shall not be lamented and they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the ground and by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed, and their corpses shall be food for the bird of the skies and for the beast of the earth.”

5 For thus says Yahweh, “Do not enter house of a funeral meal nor go to lament nor grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people”—the declaration of Yahweh—“covenant faithfulness and mercies. 6 And great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and they shall not lament for them and he shall not cut himself and he shall not be bald for them. 7 And not they shall break bread for them in mourning to comfort him for the one who is dead, and they shall not give them a cup of consolation to drink for his father or for his mother. 8 And you shall not go to the house of a feast to sit with them, to eat and drink.” 9 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will cause to cease from 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.

10 And it will happen that when you tell this people all of these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has Yahweh spoken all this great disaster concerning us and what is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?’ 11 Then you shall say to them, ‘Because your fathers have abandoned me,’—the declaration of Yahweh—‘and they have walked after other gods and they have served them and they have bowed down to them and they have abandoned me and they have not kept my law. 12 And you yourselves have done evil, to do more than your fathers, and behold, each one is walking after the stubbornness of his evil heart; to not listen to me. 13 So I will throw you far out of this land into a land that you have not known, you nor your fathers, and you shall serve other gods there by day and night, for I will not show favor to you.’

14 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,”—the declaration of Yahweh—“when it shall no longer be said, ‘The life of Yahweh, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 15 but rather, ‘The life of Yahweh, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all of the lands where he had driven them there.’ For I will bring them back to their land that I gave to their fathers.

16 Behold, I am sending for many fishermen”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and they shall fish them out. And after that I will send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from on every mountain and from on every hill, and from out of the crevices of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from before my face nor is their iniquity concealed from before my eyes. 18 But I will first repay double of their iniquity and their sin because they have defiled my land with the carcass of their detestable things, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

19 Yahweh, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of trouble.

To you the nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited a lie,

worthlessness and there is no profit in them.

20 Will a man make for himself gods? But they are not gods.

21 “Therefore, behold, I am making them to know, this time I will make them to know my hand and my might,

and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.