Jeremiah 16:17

For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

Bible in Basic English

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

16See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

18And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

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Cross References

Job 10:14That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

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

Psalms 33:15He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.

Psalms 139:3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

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

Isaiah 66:18But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

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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