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Jeremiah 16:18
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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.” 
19 O Lord, amy strength and my fortress,
bMy refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and cunprofitable things.” 
20 Will a man make gods for himself,
aWhich are not gods? 
21 “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know
My hand and My might;
And they shall know that aMy name is the Lord. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 16:18

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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