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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 16
Utter ruin of the Jews foreseen—Israel rejected and scattered for
serving false gods—Fishers and hunters shall gather them again, and
they shall serve the Lord—Gospel to be restored for last time.
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1 THE word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou
have sons or daughters in this
placea.
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2a in this place Some consider
that Jeremiah was forbiden to marry and have children, but that is not what
is stated. What is stated is that he is not to have a wife and children in the
confines of 'Jerusalem'. Jeremiah's prophetical roll kept him in Jerusalem
most of the time and he would have been tempted to mover his family to the
Jerusalem center. But God warned him against doing that, to not have them
'in this place'. But even if God was telling Jeremiah not to 'ever' marry
during his life time, there is always that time when all are promised to
have such blessing available to them such as children who die before opportunity
to marry or others for whatever cause are not able to do so; even if it is
just because they are not able to find a worthy mate. And that time is the
1000 year millennium, when all such things may be resolved, even that situation
of boys who do not like girls and girls that do not like boys, if they will
so keep themselves sexually pure.
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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;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
alamented; neither shall they be buried; but they
shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be
bconsumed by the sword, and by famine; and their
ccarcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth.
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5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of
amourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even
lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land:
they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them,
anor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men atear
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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8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
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 amirth, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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10 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt
shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee,
aWherefore 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?
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;
12 And ye have done aworse than
your bfathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the
cimagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken
unto me:
13 Therefore will I acast you out
of this bland into a land that ye know not, neither
ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other cgods
day and night; where I will not dshew you favour.
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14 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that it shall no more be said, The aLORD liveth, that
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that
abrought up the children of Israel from the land of the
bnorth, and from all the clands whither
he had driven them: and I will bbring them again into their
eland that I gave unto their fathers.
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16 ¶ Behold, I will send for many
afishers, 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.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they
are not hid from my face, neither is their ainiquity hid
from mine eyes.
18 And first I will arecompense
their iniquity and their sin bdouble; because they have
cdefiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with
the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
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19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, the aGentiles shall come
unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have
binherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make agods unto
himself, and they are no bgods?
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
aknow that my bname is The LORD.
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