Jeremiah 16:17

For my eyes are directed upon all their ways, they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Leeser Tanakh

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, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after that will I 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 [thus] will I pay them at the first their two-fold iniquity and their sin; because they have defiled my land, filling my heritage with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I have sinned, then dost thou watch me, and from my iniquity thou wilt not declare me guiltless.

Job 34:21For big eyes are upon the ways of man, and all his steps doth he see.

Psalms 33:15He fashioneth their hearts altogether; he hath regard to all their works.

Psalms 139:3My walking and my lying down hast thou limited, and with all my ways art thou acquainted.

Proverbs 15:3In every place are the eyes of the Lord, looking on the bad and the good.

Isaiah 66:18And I, because of their works and their thoughts, will let it come to pass to gather all the 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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