Jeremiah 16:17

For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes.

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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 many fishermen, says the Lord, and they will fish for them. And after this, I will send many hunters to them, and they will hunt for them on every mountain, and on every hilltop, and in the caverns of the rocks.

18But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?

Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he examines all of their steps.

Psalms 33:15Turn away from evil, and do good. Inquire about peace, and pursue it.

Psalms 139:3Those who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all day long they constructed conflicts.

Proverbs 15:3In every place, the eyes of the Lord consider good and evil.

Isaiah 66:18But I know their works and their thoughts. I am arriving, so that I may gather them together with all nations and languages. And they will approach, and they will 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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