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13 So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,[a] 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[b] look, days are coming,’ declares[c] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,[d] who led up the Israelites[e] from the land of Egypt,” 15 but only[f]As Yahweh lives,[g] who led up the Israelites[h] from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,” for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:13 Or “fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “To thus”
  3. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  5. Jeremiah 16:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  6. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “but if”
  7. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  8. Jeremiah 16:15 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  9. Jeremiah 16:15 Or “fathers”

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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