Jeremiah:16

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ylt @Jeremiah:16:1 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying : ylt @Jeremiah:16:2 @Thou dost not take to thee a wife , Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place . ylt @Jeremiah:16:3 @For thus said Jehovah , Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place , And of their mothers -- those bearing them , And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land : ylt @Jeremiah:16:4 @Of painful deaths they die , They are not lamented , nor are they buried , For dung on the face of the ground they are , And by sword and by famine are consumed , And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens , And to the beast of the earth . ylt @Jeremiah:16:5 @For thus said Jehovah : Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast , Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them , For I have removed My peace from this people , An affirmation of Jehovah , The kindness and the mercies . ylt @Jeremiah:16:6 @And died have great and small in this land , They are not buried , and none lament for them , Nor doth any cut himself , nor become bald for them . ylt @Jeremiah:16:7 @Nor do they deal out to them for mourning , To comfort him concerning the dead , Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother . ylt @Jeremiah:16:8 @A house of banqueting thou dost not enter , To sit with them , to eat and to drink , ylt @Jeremiah:16:9 @For thus said Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel : Lo , I am causing to cease from this place , Before your eyes , and in your days , The voice of joy , and the voice of rejoicing , The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride . ylt @Jeremiah:16:10 @And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words , and they have said unto thee , 'For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil ? yea , what [is ] our iniquity , and what our sin , that we have sinned against Jehovah our God ?' ylt @Jeremiah:16:11 @Then thou hast said unto them : Because that your fathers have forsaken Me , An affirmation of Jehovah , And go after other gods , and serve them , And they bow themselves to them , And Me have forsaken , and My law not kept , ylt @Jeremiah:16:12 @Ye also have done evil above your fathers , And lo , ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart , So as not to hearken unto Me . ylt @Jeremiah:16:13 @And I have cast you from off this land , On to a land that ye have not known , Ye and your fathers , And ye have served there other gods by day and by night , Where I do not give to you grace . ylt @Jeremiah:16:14 @Therefore , lo , days are coming , An affirmation of Jehovah , And it is not said any more : 'Jehovah liveth , who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt ,' ylt @Jeremiah:16:15 @But , 'Jehovah liveth , who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north , And out of all the lands whither He drove them ,' And I have brought them back to their land , That I gave to their fathers . ylt @Jeremiah:16:16 @Lo , I am sending for many fishers , An affirmation of Jehovah , And they have fished them , And after this I send for many hunters , And they have hunted them from off every mountain , And from off every hill , and from holes of the rocks . ylt @Jeremiah:16:17 @For Mine eyes [are ] upon all their ways , They have not been hidden from My face , Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes . ylt @Jeremiah:16:18 @And I have recompensed a first -- A second time -- their iniquity and their sin , Because of their polluting My land , With the carcase of their detestable things , Yea , their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance . ylt @Jeremiah:16:19 @O Jehovah , my strength , and my fortress , And my refuge in a day of adversity , Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth , And say , Only falsehood did our fathers inherit , Vanity , and none among them is profitable . ylt @Jeremiah:16:20 @Doth man make for himself gods , And they -- no gods ? ylt @Jeremiah:16:21 @Therefore , lo , I am causing them to know at this time , I cause them to know My hand and My might , And they have known that My name [is ] Jehovah !

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