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God Will Restore Israel

14 “Therefore behold, the adays are coming,” says the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’  
15 but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the anorth and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For bI will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.  
16 “Behold, I will send for many afishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.  
17 For My aeyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.  
18 And first I will repay adouble for their iniquity and their sin, because bthey have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.” 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 16:16

send for—translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" (II Chronicles 17:7).

fishers . . . hunters—successive invaders of Judea (Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:14-15). So "net" (Ezekiel 12:13). As to "hunters," see Genesis 10:9; Micah 7:2. The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their pursuit of them into every cave and nook. It is remarkable, the same image is used in a good sense of the Jews' restoration, implying that just as their enemies were employed by God to take them in hand for destruction, so the same shall be employed for their restoration (Ezekiel 47:9-10). So spiritually, those once enemies by nature (fishermen many of them literally) were employed by God to be heralds of salvation, "catching men" for life (Matthew 4:19; Luke 5:10; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4); compare here Jeremiah 16:19, "the Gentiles shall come unto thee" (II Corinthians 12:16).




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