Jeremiah 16:14-21

14“However, look, 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,’

15but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north 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.

16“I am about to send for many fishermen”  — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

17for my gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.

18I will first repay them double for their iniquity and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”

19Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our ancestors inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

20Can one make gods for himself? But they are not gods.

21“Therefore, I am about to inform them, and this time I will make them know my power and my might; then they will know that my name is the Lord.”