Jeremiah 16:17

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

World English Bible Classic

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

16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the LORD, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

18First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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Cross References

Job 10:14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Psalms 33:15he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Psalms 139:3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Proverbs 15:3The LORD’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Isaiah 66:18“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and 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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