Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Jeremiah 16

Jer 16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

The word of the LORD

The sign of the unmarried prophet is interpreted by the context. The whole social life of Judah was about to be disrupted and cease from the land. But note the promises of Jer 16:14-16; 17:7, 8.

Jer 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

their carcases shall be meat for the fowls

Jer 7:33; 34:20; Psa 79:2.

Jer 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

cut themselves

Jer 41:5; 47:5; Lev 19:28; Deu 14:1.

make themselves bald

Jer 7:29; Isa 22:12.

Jer 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

I will cause to cease

Jer 7:34; 25:10; Isa 24:7, 8; Eze 26:13; Hos 2:11; Rev 18:23.

Jer 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this

Jer 5:19; 13:22; 22:8; Deu 29:24.

Jer 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Because your fathers have forsaken me

Jer 22:9; Deu 29:25.

Jer 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

Kingdom (O.T.). Jer 16:12-16; Jer 23:5-8. (Gen 1:26; Zec 12:8).

Jer 16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

into a land that ye know not

Deu 4:26-28; 28:36, 63-65.

Jer 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

the days come

Isa 11:11, 12; 43:18; Jer 23:7, 8; Eze 37:21-25.

Jer 16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

I will bring them again into their land

Jer 24:6; 30:3; 32:37.

Jer 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

I will send for many fishers

Amo 4:2; Hab 1:15.

Jer 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

mine eyes are upon all their ways

Jer 32:19; Job 34:21; Pro 5:21; 15:3.

Jer 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

their sin double

Jer 17:18; Isa 40:2.

they have defiled my land

Eze 43:7, 9.

Jer 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.

The LORD

Or, JEHOVAH. Psa 83:18.