💧WEB · Jeremiah 16:17

What does Jeremiah 16:17 mean?

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

— Jeremiah 16:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

14

“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

15

but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

16

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “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.

17

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

18

First 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.”

19

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

20

Should a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?”

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