Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
first . . . double—HORSLEY translates, "I will recompense . . . once and again"; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities—the Babylonian and the Roman. MAURER, "I will recompense their former iniquities (those long ago committed by their fathers) and their (own) repeated sins" (Jeremiah 16:11-12). English Version gives a good sense, "First (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, fully and amply, Jeremiah 17:18; Isaiah 40:2) recompense."
carcasses—not sweet-smelling sacrifices acceptable to God, but "carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims (Jeremiah 19:5; Ezekiel 16:20), and unclean animals (Isaiah 65:4; Isaiah 66:17). MAURER explains it, "the carcasses" of the idols: their images void of sense and life, Compare Jeremiah 16:19-20. Leviticus 26:30 favors this.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 16:18:
Jeremiah 16:14
Jeremiah 17:18
Ezekiel 43:9
Joel 1:6
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