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Text -- Jeremiah 16:15-21 (NET)
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16:15 But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors .”
16:16 But for now I, the Lord , say : “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen . After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains , all the hills , and the crevices in the rocks .
16:17 For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.
16:18 Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols . They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols .”
16:19 Then I said, “Lord , you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble . Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say , ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.
16:20 Can people make their own gods ? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
16:21 The Lord said, “So I will now let this wicked people know – I will let them know my mighty power in judgment. Then they will know that my name is the Lord .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
Idolatry |
Gentiles |
Church |
Jesus, The Christ |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Hunting |
Faith |
Dispersion |
Fishermen |
Wicked |
Sin |
Vanity |
Afflictions and Adversities |
GODS |
DOUBLE |
DETESTABLE, THINGS |
CARCASS; CARCASE |
ABOMINATION |
FISH |
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NET Notes: Jer 16:15 These two verses which constitute one long sentence with compound, complex subordinations has been broken up for sake of English style. It reads, R...
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NET Notes: Jer 16:16 The picture of rounding up the population for destruction and exile is also seen in Amos 4:2 and Hab 1:14-17.
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NET Notes: Jer 16:17 Heb “For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hidden from before me. And their sin is not hidden away from before my eyes.”
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NET Notes: Jer 16:18 Many of the English versions take “lifeless statues of their detestable idols” with “filled” as a compound object. This follow...
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NET Notes: Jer 16:19 This passage offers some rather forceful contrasts. The Lord is Jeremiah’s source of strength, security, and protection. The idols are false god...
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NET Notes: Jer 16:20 Heb “and they are ‘no gods.’” For the construction here compare 2:11 and a similar construction in 2 Kgs 19:18 and see BDB 519...
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