Jeremiah 16:14-21 ▼

14 “However, take note! The days are coming”   — the LORD’s declaration  — “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’ 

15 but rather , ‘As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north  and from all the other lands where He had banished them .’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors. 

16 “I am about to send for many fishermen”   — this is the LORD’s declaration  — “and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

17 for My gaze takes in all their ways.  They are not concealed from Me, and their guilt is not hidden from My sight.

18 I will first repay them double for their guilt  and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”

19 LORD , my strength and  my  stronghold, my refuge in  a time of distress,  the nations will come to  You from the ends of the earth, and  they will say, “Our fathers inherited only  lies, worthless idols  of no  benefit at all.”

20 Can one make gods for  himself ? But they are not  gods. 

21 “Therefore , I am about to inform  them, and this time I will make them  know My power and  My  might; then they will know that  My  name is ^•Yahweh.”