13 So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your fathers are not familiar with.(A) There you will worship other gods(B) both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.[a]

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,’(C) 15 but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north(D) 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.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:13 Or compassion

13 So I will throw you out of this land(A) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,(B) and there you will serve other gods(C) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’(D)

14 “However, the days are coming,”(E) declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’(F) 15 but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north(G) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’(H) For I will restore(I) them to the land I gave their ancestors.(J)

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