Jeremiah 16:16-18

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¹⁶ “I will soon send for many fishermen to come to this land.” This message is from the Lord. “They will catch the people of Judah. After that happens, I will send for many hunters^[a] to come to this land. They will hunt the people of Judah on every mountain and hill and in the cracks of the rocks. ¹⁷ I see everything they do. The people of Judah cannot hide the things they do. Their sin is not hidden from me. ¹⁸ I will pay the people of Judah back for the evil things they did—I will punish them two times for every sin. I will do this because they have made my land ‘dirty.’ They made my land ‘dirty’ with their terrible idols. I hate those idols, but they have filled my country with their idols.”