Jeremiah 16:17

For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

In Context

16Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says LORD, and they shall fish them up. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.

Psalms 33:15he who fashions the hearts of them all, who considers all their works.

Psalms 139:3Thou search out my path and my laying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Proverbs 15:3The eyes of LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

Isaiah 66:18For I [know] their works and their thoughts. [The time] comes, that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 16:15-21

Judgment and Mercy; Restoration of the Jews; Deliverance from Babylon. ( b. c. 605.) 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; 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. 16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith… Read the whole commentary →

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