Jeremiah:16
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The worde of the Lorde came also vnto mee ,
saying ,
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Thou shalt not take (
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Meaning that the affliction would be so horrible in Jerusalem that a wife and children would only increase his sorrow .(:
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thee a wife ,
neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place .
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For thus sayeth the Lorde concerning the sonnes ,
and concerning the daughters that are borne in this place , &
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concerning their mothers that beare them , &
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concerning their fathers ,
that beget them in this land ,
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They shal die of deathes and diseases :
they shal not be lamented ,
neither shal they be buried ,
but they shalbe as dung vpon the earth ,
and they shalbe consumed by the sword , &
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by famine ,
and their carkeises shall be meate for the foules of the heauen ,
and for the beasts of the earth .
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For thus saith the LORD , (
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Signifying that the affliction would be so great that one would not have leisure to comfort another .(:
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Enter not into the house of mourning ,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them :
for I have taken away my peace from this people ,
saith the LORD , [
even ]
lovingkindness and mercies .
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land :
they shall not be buried ,
neither shall [
men ]
lament for them , (
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That is ,
should not tear their clothes in sign of mourning .(:
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nor cut themselves ,
nor make themselves bald for them :
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Neither shall [
men ]
tear [
themselves ]
for them in mourning ,
to comfort them for the dead ;
neither shall [
men ]
give them the (
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For in these great extremities all consolation and comfort will be in vain .(:
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cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother .
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Thou shalt not also goe into the house of feasting to sit with them to eate and to drinke .
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For thus sayth the Lord of hostes ,
the God of Israel ,
Beholde ,
I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes ,
euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth ,
and the voyce of gladnes ,
the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when thou shalt show this people all these words ,
and they shall say to thee ,
Why hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us ?
or what [
is ] (
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Because the wicked are always rebellious and conceal their own sins and murmur against God '
s judgments ,
as though he had no just cause to punish them ,
he shows him what to answer .(:
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our iniquity ?
or what [
is ]
our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God ?
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Then shalt thou say vnto them ,
Because your fathers haue forsaken me ,
sayth the Lord , &
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haue walked after other gods ,
and haue serued them ,
and worshipped them , &
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haue forsaken me ,
and haue not kept my Law ,
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And ye haue done worse then your fathers :
for beholde ,
you walke euery one after the stubbernesse of his wicked heart ,
and will not heare me )
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Therefore will I driue you out of this land into a lande that ye knowe not ,
neither you ,
nor your fathers , &
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there shal ye serue other gods day and night :
for I will shew you no grace .
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Behold therfore ,
saith the Lord ,
the dayes come that it shal no more be sayde ,
The Lord liueth ,
which brought vp the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ,
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But ,
The LORD liveth ,
that brought the children of Israel from the land of the north ,
and (
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Signifying that the blessing of their deliverance out of Babylon would be so great that it would abolish the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt :
but he has here chiefly respect to the spiritual deliverance under Christ .(:
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from all the lands where he had driven them :
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers .
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Behold ,
I will send for many (
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By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians and Chaldeans who would destroy them in such sort ,
that if they escaped the one ,
the other would take them .(:
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fishermen ,
saith the LORD ,
and they shall fish them ;
and afterwards will I send for many hunters ,
and they shall hunt them from every mountain ,
and from every hill ,
and out of the clefts of the rocks .
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For mine eyes are vpon al their wayes :
they are not hid from my face ,
neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eyes .
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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double ;
because they have defiled my land ,
they have filled my inheritance with the (
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That is ,
their sons and daughters ,
who they offered to Molech .(:
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carcases of their detestable and abominable things .
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O LORD ,
my (
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He wonders at the great mercy of God in this deliverance which will not only extend to the Jews but also to the Gentiles .(:
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strength ,
and my fortress ,
and my refuge in the day of affliction ,
the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth ,
and shall say ,
Surely our fathers have inherited Our fathers were most vile idolaters therefore it comes only of God '
s mercy that he performs his promise and has not utterly cast us off .
lies ,
vanity ,
and [
things ]
in which [
there is ]
no profit .
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Shall a man make gods vnto himselfe ,
and they are no gods ?
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will this once (
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They will once again feel my power and mercy for their deliverance that they may learn to worship me .(:
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cause them to know ,
I will cause them to know my hand and my might ;
and they shall know that my name [
is ]
JEHOVAH .