1 This message came to me from the LORD:
2 Do not marry any woman; you shall not have sons or daughters in this place,
3 for thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who will be born in this place, the mothers who will give them birth, the fathers who will beget them in this land:
4 Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.
5 Go not into a house of mourning, the LORD continued: go not there to lament or offer sympathy. For I have withdrawn my friendship from this people, says the LORD, my kindness and my pity.
6 They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, and shall go unburied and unlamented. No one will gash himself or shave his head for them.
7 They will not break bread with the bereaved to console them in their bereavement; they will not give them the cup of consolation to drink over the death of father or mother.
8 Enter not a house where people are celebrating, to sit with them eating and drinking.
9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Before your very eyes and during your lifetime I will silence from this place the cry of joy and the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 When you proclaim all these words to this people and they ask you: "Why has the LORD pronounced all these great evils against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the LORD, our God?"--
11 you shall answer them: It is because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and followed strange gods, which they served and worshiped; but me they have forsaken, and my law they have not observed.
12 And you have done worse than your fathers. Here you are, every one of you, walking in the hardness of his evil heart instead of listening to me.
13 I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known; there you can serve strange gods day and night, because I will not grant you my mercy.
14 However, days will surely come, says the LORD, when it will no longer be said, "As the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites out of Egypt";
15 but rather, "As the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of the north and out of all the countries to which he had banished them." I will bring them back to the land which I gave their fathers.
16 Look! I will send many fishermen, says the LORD, to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and from the clefts of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor does their guilt escape my view.
18 I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin of profaning my land with their detestable corpses of idols, and filling my heritage with their abominations.
19 O LORD, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you will the nations come from the ends of the earth, and say, "Mere frauds are the heritage of our fathers, empty idols of no use."
20 Can man make for himself gods? These are not gods.
21 Look, then: I will give them knowledge; this time I will leave them in no doubt Of my strength and my power: they shall know that my name is LORD.
Versículos relacionados com Jeremiah, 16:
Jeremiah chapter 16 speaks about God's command so that Jeremiah will not marry or have children, for there will be great destruction and death in Judah and there will be no reason to celebrate life. God also talks about how he will punish Judah for his sins and how his suffering will be great. Following are five verses related to the topics addressed in Jeremiah 16:
Isaiah 13:9: "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, horrendous, with fury and ardent wrath, to make the earth in the sillow and to exterminate sinners." This verse talks about how God will punish sinners and destroy the earth.
Ezekiel 7:19: "They shall cast silver on the streets, and gold will be considered as a filthy thing. On the day of the wrath of the Lord, it will not satisfy, nor do it make it yield its gold; for it will serve as occasion of sin." This verse talks about how wealth will have no value in the day of God's wrath and can be a cause of sin.
Psalm 78:31: "It was then that the wrath of God rose, because they killed many of his chosen ones, and wounded his elect." This verse talks about how God has outed with the people of Israel for their sins and infidelity.
Hosea 4:6: "My people are being destroyed, because you lack knowledge. Because you, priest, have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may not be a priest before me; God, I will also forget your children. " This verse talks about how God's lack of knowledge can lead to the destruction of the people.
Zechariah 7:12: "They made their hard hearts as a diamond, so as not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent for His Spirit through the ancient prophets, so came the great wrath of the Lord of hosts . " This verse talks about how resistance to God's words can lead to God's wrath and its punishment.
Rozdziały: