Jeremiah 16

1And you shall not take a wife, says the Lord God of Israel: 2and there shall be no son born to you, nor daughter in this place. 3For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are bornin this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that havebegotten them in this land; 4They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall befor an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for thebirds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine. 5Thus says the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mournnot for them: for I have removed my peace from this people. 6They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselvesfor them: 7and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead:they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother. 8You shall not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9For thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, Iwill make to cease out of 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. 10And it shall come to pass, when you shall report to this people all these words, andthey shall say to you, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness?and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God? 11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, says the Lord, and wentafter strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law; 12(and you⌃ sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, you⌃ walk every one after thelusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me); 13therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither you⌃ noryour fathers have known; and you⌃ shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you. 14Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lordlives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, andfrom all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their own land, which I gaveto their fathers. 16Behold, Iwill send many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will sendmany hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holesof the rocks. 17For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden frommine eyes. 18And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profanedmy land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassedagainst mine inheritance. 19O Lord, you are my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to you theGentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vainwere the idolswhich our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them. 20Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods? 21Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make knownto them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.

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