KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 16
The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foretells the utter ruin of the Jews. Their return from captivity shall be strange.
1And was the Word of Jehovah to me, saying,
2You shall not take a wife for yourself, and not will be to you sons or daughters in this place.
3For so says Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:
4They shall die of deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned and not shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will end by the sword and by famine, and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
5For so says Jehovah, Do not enter into the house of mourning and do not go to lament and not do moan for them. For I have removed My peace with loving-kindness and compassions from this people, a statement of Jehovah.
6Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and not they will mourn for them, and not cut himself, and not make himself bald for them.
7And not shall they break for them in mourning, to comfort him for ones who died. And not shall they give them the cup of consolation to drink for one's father or one's mother.
8And you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and drink.
9For so says Jehovah of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from this place for your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, they will say to you, Why has Jehovah spoken all this great evil against us? And what is our iniquity, or what our sin that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?
11And you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, a statement of Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have bowed down to them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My Law.
12And you have done more evil than your fathers. For, behold, you each man walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without hearing Me.
13And I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, you and not your fathers. And there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not grant you favor.
14So, behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
15But rather, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands, there where He had driven them. And I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16Behold, I will send for many fishermen, a statement of Jehovah. And they shall fish them. And after this I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them, from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face; their iniquity is not concealed from My eyes.
18And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the bodies of their detestable idols. Yea, their disgusting things have filled My inheritance.
19O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
20Can a man make gods to himself? But they are not gods!
21Therefore, behold, I will make them know; this time I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Jehovah.
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