Jeremiah 16:17

For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

Young's Literal Translation

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

16Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.

18And I have recompensed a first — A second time — their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,

Job 34:21For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

Psalms 33:15Who is forming their hearts together, Who is attending unto all their works.

Psalms 139:3My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.

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

Isaiah 66:18And I — their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.

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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