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Jeremiah 16

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshews the utter ruin of the Jews;
10  because they were worse than their fathers.
14  Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16  God will doubly recompense their idolatry.
Verse 1

The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
The word
1:2,4, 2:1
Verse 2

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Genesis 19:14, Matthew 24:19, Luke 21:23, 23:29, 1 Corinthians 7:26,27
Verse 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;
5,9
Verse 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.
die
14:16, 15:2,3, Psalms 78:64
not
5-7, 22:18, 25:33, Amos 6:9,10
neither
7:33, 22:19, 36:30, Psalms 79:2,3
as dung
8:1-3, 9:22, 25:33, 1 Kings 14:10,11, 21:23,24, 2 Kings 9:10,36,37, Psalms 83:10, Isaiah 5:25, Zephaniah 1:17
consumed
14:15, 34:17, 44:12,27, Ezekiel 5:12
meat
34:20, Psalms 79:2, Isaiah 18:6, Ezekiel 39:17-20, Revelation 19:17,18
Verse 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.
Enter
6,7, Ezekiel 24:16-23
mourning
or, mourning feast. I have.
15:1-4, Deuteronomy 31:17, 2 Chronicles 15:5,6, Isaiah 27:11, Zechariah 8:10, Revelation 6:4
Verse 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:
the great
13:13, Isaiah 9:14-17, 24:2, Ezekiel 9:5,6, Amos 6:11, Revelation 6:15, 20:12
they
4, 22:18,19
nor cut
7:29, 41:5, 47:5, 48:37, Leviticus 19:28, Deuteronomy 14:1, Isaiah 22:12
Verse 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.
tear themselves
or, break bread.
Deuteronomy 26:14, Job 42:11, Ezekiel 24:17, Hosea 9:4
cup
Proverbs 31:6,7
Verse 8

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
15:17, Psalms 26:4, Ecclesiastes 7:2-4, Isaiah 22:12-14, Amos 6:4-6, Matthew 24:38, Luke 17:27-29, 1 Corinthians 5:11, Ephesians 5:11
Verse 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.
I will
7:34, 25:10, Isaiah 24:7-12, Ezekiel 26:13, Hosea 2:11, Revelation 18:22,23
Verse 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?
Wherefore
2:35, 5:19, 13:22, 22:8,9, Deuteronomy 29:24,25, 1 Kings 9:8,9, Hosea 12:8
Verse 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;
Because
2:8, 5:7-9, Judges 2:12,13, 10:13,14, Nehemiah 9:26-29, Psalms 106:35-41, Daniel 9:10-12
walked
8:2, 9:14, Ezekiel 11:21, 1 Peter 4:3
Verse 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:
worse
7:26, 13:10, 2 Timothy 3:13
imagination
or, stubbornness.
7:24, 9:14, 13:10; *marg:; Deuteronomy 9:27, 29:19; *marg:; Judges 2:19, 1 Samuel 15:23
evil
17:9, Genesis 6:5, 8:21, Ecclesiastes 8:12, 9:3, Mark 7:21, Hebrews 3:12
Verse 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.
will I
6:15, 15:4,14, 17:4, Leviticus 18:27,28, Deuteronomy 4:26-28, 28:36,63-65, 29:28, Deuteronomy 30:17,18, Joshua 23:15,16, 2 Chronicles 7:20
into a
14:8, 17:4, 22:28
and
Deuteronomy 4:28, 28:36, Psalms 81:12
Verse 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;
behold
23:7,8, Isaiah 43:18,19, Hosea 3:4,5
that brought
Exodus 20:2, Deuteronomy 15:15, Micah 6:4
Verse 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.
that brought
3:18, 24:6, 30:3,10, 31:8, 32:37, 50:19, Deuteronomy 30:3-5, Psalms 106:47, Isaiah 11:11-16, 13:5,6, 14:1, 27:12,13, Ezekiel 34:12-14, 36:24, 37:21,22, Ezekiel 39:28, Amos 9:14
Verse 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.
I will send
I will raise up enemies against them, some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. The Chaldeans shall make an entire conquest of the whole land, and strip it of its riches and inhabitants; and those who may escape one party shall fall into the hands of another.
25:9, Amos 4:2, Habakkuk 1:14,15
hunters
Genesis 10:9, 1 Samuel 24:11, 26:20, Micah 7:2
every mountain
Isaiah 24:17,18, Amos 5:19, 9:1-3, Luke 17:34-37, Revelation 6:15-17
Verse 17

For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
23:24, 32:19, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Job 34:21,22, Psalms 90:8, 139:3, Proverbs 5:21, Proverbs 15:3, Isaiah 29:15, Ezekiel 8:12, 9:9, Luke 12:1,2, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Hebrews 4:13
Verse 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.
first
17:18, Isaiah 40:2, 61:7, Revelation 18:6
they have defiled
2:7, 3:1,2,9, Leviticus 18:27,28, Numbers 35:33,34, Psalms 106:38, Isaiah 24:5, Micah 2:10, Zephaniah 3:1-5
the carcases
Leviticus 26:30, Ezekiel 11:18,21, 43:7-9
Verse 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.
my strength
17:17, Psalms 18:1,2, 19:14, 27:5, 46:1,7,11, 62:2,7, 91:1,2, 144:1,2, Proverbs 18:10, Isaiah 25:4, 32:2, Ezekiel 11:16, Nahum 1:7, Habakkuk 3:19
Gentiles
3:16,17, Psalms 22:27-30, 67:2-7, 68:31, 72:8-12, 86:9, Isaiah 2:2,3, Isaiah 11:9,10, 49:6, 60:1-3, 62:2, Micah 4:1,2, Zechariah 2:11, 8:20-23, Malachi 1:11, Revelation 7:9-11, 11:15
Surely
3:23, 10:14,15, Habakkuk 2:18,19, 1 Peter 1:18
wherein
2:11, 10:5, Isaiah 44:10
Verse 20

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Psalms 115:4-8, 135:14-18, Isaiah 36:19, 37:19, Hosea 8:4-6, Acts 19:26, Galatians 1:8, Galatians 4:8
Verse 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.
I will this
Exodus 9:14-18, 14:4, Psalms 9:16, Ezekiel 6:7, 24:24,27, 25:14
and they
33:2, Exodus 15:3, Psalms 83:18, Isaiah 43:3, Amos 5:8
The Lord
or, JEHOVAH.

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