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Jeremiah Chapter 16

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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah 16 begins with the Lord forbidding the prophet to take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place, because of the grievous deaths coming upon its families—sword, famine, and unburied carcasses as food for birds and beasts. It forbids mourning and feasting because peace has been removed from the land, and declares that when the people ask what their sin is, the answer is that their fathers forsook Him and walked after other gods. The chapter closes with the prophet's confession that the Lord is his strength and fortress, with a vision of the Gentiles coming from the ends of the earth confessing that their fathers inherited lies, and the Lord's promise to make Himself known so that they know His name is the Lord.

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(1) The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
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Jeremiah 1:2Jeremiah 1:4Jeremiah 2:1

(2) Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
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Genesis 19:14Matthew 24:19Luke 21:23Luke 23:29I Corinthians 7:26I Corinthians 7:27

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(3) For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
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Jeremiah 16:5Jeremiah 16:9

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Jeremiah 27:19Ezekiel 14:22Numbers 30:12Ruth 4:7II Samuel 7:25I Kings 5:8

(4) They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 14:16Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Psalms 78:64Jeremiah 16:5Jeremiah 16:6Jeremiah 16:7Jeremiah 22:18Jeremiah 25:33Amos 6:9Amos 6:10Jeremiah 7:33

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Jeremiah 44:12Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 19:7II Kings 7:4Isaiah 18:6Deuteronomy 28:26

(5) For thus saith the LORD, 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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Jeremiah 16:6Jeremiah 16:7Ezekiel 24:16Ezekiel 24:17Ezekiel 24:18Ezekiel 24:19Ezekiel 24:20Ezekiel 24:21Ezekiel 24:22Ezekiel 24:23Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 15:2

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Ezekiel 32:16

(6) Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
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Jeremiah 13:13Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 9:15Isaiah 9:16Isaiah 9:17Isaiah 24:2Ezekiel 9:5Ezekiel 9:6Amos 6:11Revelation 6:15Revelation 20:12Jeremiah 16:4

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Leviticus 13:42II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Genesis 49:31Ezekiel 32:16

(7) Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
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Deuteronomy 26:14Job 42:11Ezekiel 24:17Hosea 9:4Proverbs 31:6Proverbs 31:7

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Luke 12:53Genesis 40:11

(8) Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
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Jeremiah 15:17Psalms 26:4Ecclesiastes 7:2Ecclesiastes 7:3Ecclesiastes 7:4Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 22:13Isaiah 22:14Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6Matthew 24:38

(9) For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 25:10Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Isaiah 24:9Isaiah 24:10Isaiah 24:11Isaiah 24:12Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:22Revelation 18:23

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Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 25:10Jeremiah 33:11Zechariah 1:3John 3:29

(10) And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
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Jeremiah 2:35Jeremiah 5:19Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 22:8Jeremiah 22:9Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25I Kings 9:8I Kings 9:9Hosea 12:8

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Ezekiel 33:13

(11) Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
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Jeremiah 2:8Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:8Jeremiah 5:9Judges 2:12Judges 2:13Judges 10:13Judges 10:14Nehemiah 9:26Nehemiah 9:27Nehemiah 9:28Nehemiah 9:29

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 22:9II Kings 21:21Deuteronomy 29:26Judges 10:13I Samuel 8:8

(12) And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
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Jeremiah 7:26Jeremiah 13:10II Timothy 3:13Jeremiah 7:24Jeremiah 9:14Deuteronomy 9:27Deuteronomy 29:19Judges 2:19I Samuel 15:23Jeremiah 17:9Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21

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Jeremiah 13:10

(13) Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
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Jeremiah 6:15Jeremiah 15:4Jeremiah 15:14Jeremiah 17:4Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 4:27Deuteronomy 4:28Deuteronomy 28:36Deuteronomy 28:63Deuteronomy 28:64

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Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6Deuteronomy 12:30Joshua 24:14Judges 9:28

(14) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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Jeremiah 23:7Jeremiah 23:8Isaiah 43:18Isaiah 43:19Hosea 3:4Hosea 3:5Exodus 20:2Deuteronomy 15:15Micah 6:4

(15) But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
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Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 30:10Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 32:37Jeremiah 50:19Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Psalms 106:47Isaiah 11:11

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Jeremiah 23:8II Chronicles 32:13

(16) Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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Jeremiah 25:9Amos 4:2Habakkuk 1:14Habakkuk 1:15Genesis 10:9I Samuel 24:11I Samuel 26:20Micah 7:2Isaiah 24:17Isaiah 24:18Amos 5:19Amos 9:1

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Genesis 38:17Exodus 4:13Numbers 13:2I Samuel 6:3Psalms 57:3Isaiah 6:8

(17) For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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Jeremiah 23:24Jeremiah 32:19II Chronicles 16:9Job 34:21Job 34:22Psalms 90:8Psalms 139:3Proverbs 5:21Proverbs 15:3Isaiah 29:15Ezekiel 8:12Ezekiel 9:9

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II Kings 7:8Psalms 32:5Isaiah 49:2II Corinthians 4:3Isaiah 57:17Ezekiel 39:23

(18) And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
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Jeremiah 17:18Isaiah 40:2Isaiah 61:7Revelation 18:6Jeremiah 2:7Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 3:9Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Numbers 35:33Numbers 35:34

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Revelation 18:6Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9

(19) O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Jeremiah 17:17Psalms 18:1Psalms 18:2Psalms 19:14Psalms 27:5Psalms 46:1Psalms 46:7Psalms 46:11Psalms 62:2Psalms 62:7Psalms 91:1Psalms 91:2

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Ecclesiastes 2:19Psalms 62:9Jeremiah 44:25Isaiah 25:4Ecclesiastes 1:2

(20) Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
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Psalms 115:4Psalms 115:5Psalms 115:6Psalms 115:7Psalms 115:8Psalms 135:14Psalms 135:15Psalms 135:16Psalms 135:17Psalms 135:18Isaiah 36:19Isaiah 37:19

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Judges 10:6Exodus 20:23Exodus 34:15Exodus 34:16Numbers 25:2Deuteronomy 6:14

(21) Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
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Exodus 9:14Exodus 9:15Exodus 9:16Exodus 9:17Exodus 9:18Exodus 14:4Psalms 9:16Ezekiel 6:7Ezekiel 24:24Ezekiel 24:27Ezekiel 25:14Jeremiah 33:2

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