Jeremiah 16:17

For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they are not hid from My face; Neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; 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 profaned My land; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Job 34:21For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, and He seeth all his goings.

Psalms 33:15He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, that considereth all their doings.

Psalms 139:3Thou measurest my going about and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the 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 cometh, 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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