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12 And you have behaved badly[a] more than your ancestors,[b] and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me. 13 So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,[c] and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor.

The Nation’s Return to the Land

14 Therefore[d] look, days are coming,’ declares[e] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,[f] who led up the Israelites[g] from the land of Egypt,”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:12 Literally “you have done evil to do”
  2. Jeremiah 16:12 Or “fathers”
  3. Jeremiah 16:13 Or “fathers”
  4. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “To thus”
  5. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “a declaration of”
  6. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  7. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”