Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you from this land to a land that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, and you will worship other gods there by day and night, for I will not give any favor to you.'

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Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

In Context

12But you yourselves have brought about more wickedness than your ancestors, for see, each person is walking by the stubbornness of his wicked heart; there is no one who listens to me.

14Therefore, behold, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when it will no longer be said, 'As Yahweh lives, the one who brought up the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.'

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:27For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.

Deuteronomy 4:28There you will serve other gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Deuteronomy 28:63As Yahweh once rejoiced over you in doing you good, and in multiplying you, so he will rejoice over you in making you perish and in destroying you. You will be plucked off the land that you are going into to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away, and you do not listen but instead are drawn away and bow down to other gods and worship them,

2 Kings 25:21The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. In this way, Judah went out of its land into exile.

Psalms 81:12So I gave them over to their own stubborn way 1 so that they might do what seemed right to them. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 16:11-14

Causes of Divine Judgments. ( b. c. 605.) 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord , and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not… Read the whole commentary →

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