Jeremiah 16:17

For mine own eyes are upon all their ways, they have not been hid from my face—neither hath their iniquity been concealed from being straight before mine eyes.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 me! sending for many fishers Declareth Yahweh, And they shall catch them,—and thereafter will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from off every mountain and from off every hill, and out of the clefts of the crags.

18Thus will I recompense, first, twofold, their iniquity and their sin, because of their profaning my land,—with the carcase of their disgusting and detestable things, have they filled mine inheritance.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:

Job 34:21For, his eyes, are on the ways of a man, and, all his footsteps, he beholdeth,—

Psalms 33:15Who fashioneth their heart all together, Who understandeth all their doings.

Psalms 139:3My path and my couch, hast thou examined, and, all my ways, thou well knowest.

Proverbs 15:3In every place, are the eyes of Yahweh, observing the evil and the good.

Isaiah 66:18Because, I, …for their works and their devices, doth it come! …Am about to gather together all nations and tongues,—So shall they come and 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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