Verse 11

Jeremiah 16:11

GOD'S WORD Translation

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11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם עַל֩ אֲשֶׁר עָזְב֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵי/כֶ֤ם אוֹתִ/י֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יֵּלְכ֗וּ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וַ/יַּעַבְד֖וּ/ם וַ/יִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ לָ/הֶ֑ם וְ/אֹתִ֣/י עָזָ֔בוּ וְ/אֶת תּוֹרָתִ֖/י לֹ֥א שָׁמָֽרוּ

English Translation

And you shall say to them, "Because your fathers have forsaken My covenant," says the Lord, "and have gone after other gods and served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and have not kept My Law."

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Chapter 16 Context

1 Yahweh’s word came also to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.” Focus ↗

3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and con... Focus ↗

4 “They will die grievous deaths: they will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be... Focus ↗

5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for... Focus ↗

6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut... Focus ↗

7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cu... Focus ↗

8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.” Focus ↗

9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this pl... Focus ↗

10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronoun... Focus ↗

11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked aft...

12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his e... Focus ↗

13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor yo... Focus ↗

14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who... Focus ↗

15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from al... Focus ↗

16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will... Focus ↗

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

18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with... Focus ↗

19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will com... Focus ↗

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

21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my mig... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 16 (21 verses)
Version: GOD'S WORD Translation

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