Context 8“Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.” 9For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. 10“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has the LORD declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the LORD our God?’ 11“Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘and have followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law. 12‘You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me. 13‘So I will hurl you out of this land into the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.’ God Will Restore Them 14“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 15but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers. 16“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks. 17“For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. 18“I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.” 19O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, 20Can man make gods for himself? 21“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know— Parallel Verses American Standard VersionAnd thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. Douay-Rheims Bible And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink. Darby Bible Translation And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink. English Revised Version And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. Webster's Bible Translation Also thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. World English Bible You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. Young's Literal Translation A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink, Library Some General Uses from this Useful Truth, that Christ is the Truth. Having thus cleared up this truth, we should come to speak of the way of believers making use of him as the truth, in several cases wherein they will stand in need of him as the truth. But ere we come to the particulars, we shall first propose some general uses of this useful point. First. This point of truth serveth to discover unto us, the woful condition of such as are strangers to Christ the truth; and oh, if it were believed! For, 1. They are not yet delivered from that dreadful plague of … John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life The Jews Make all Ready for the War; and Simon, the Son of Gioras, Falls to Plundering. Degrees of Sin Healing the Centurion's Servant. Jeremiah Links Jeremiah 16:8 NIV • Jeremiah 16:8 NLT • Jeremiah 16:8 ESV • Jeremiah 16:8 NASB • Jeremiah 16:8 KJV • Jeremiah 16:8 Bible Apps • Jeremiah 16:8 Parallel • Bible Hub |
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