Jeremiah 16:18

Jeremiah 16:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
• New International Version (NIV)I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
• New King James Version (NKJV)And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”

Context of Jeremiah 16:18

16But for now I, the Lord, say: “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks. 17For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.” 19Then I said, “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods – worthless idols that could not help them at all. 20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

Jeremiah 16:18 word by word

וְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֣י רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֗ה מִשְׁנֵ֤ה עֲוֹנָם֙ וְחַטָּאתָ֔ם עַ֖ל חַלְּלָ֣ם אֶת־אַרְצִ֑י בְּנִבְלַ֤ת שִׁקּֽוּצֵיהֶם֙ וְתוֹעֲב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם מָלְא֖וּ אֶת־נַחֲלָתִֽי׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And firstרִאשׁוֹןri'shôn ri'shôn · firstH7223
• I will recompenseשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
• their iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• and their sinחַטָּאתchaţţâ'âh chaţţâ'th · sinH2403
• doubleמִשְׁנֶהmishneh · secondH4932
• because they have defiledחָלַלchâlal · to profane/begin: profaneH2490
• my landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• they have filledמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• mine inheritanceנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• with the carcasesנְבֵלָהnebêlâh · carcassH5038
• of their detestableשִׁקּוּץshiqqûts shiqqûts · abominationH8251
• and abominable thingsתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441

Cross-references for Jeremiah 16:18

• Jeremiah 17:18May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.”
• Isaiah 40:2“Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins.”
• Isaiah 61:7Instead of shame, you will get a double portion; instead of humiliation, they will rejoice over the land they receive. Yes, they will possess a double portion in their land and experience lasting joy.
• Revelation 18:6Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.
• Jeremiah 2:7I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
• Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the Lord.
• Leviticus 18:27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
• Numbers 35:33“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
• Psalms 106:38They shed innocent blood – the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
• Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.
• Micah 2:10But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
• Zephaniah 3:1The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
• Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
• Ezekiel 11:18“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
• Ezekiel 43:7He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 16:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18The carcasses of their detestable - things - Either meaning the idols themselves, which were only carcasses without life; or the sacrifices which were made to them.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18First - Before the return from exile. I will recompense their iniquity … double - The ordinary rule of the Law (Isaiah 40:2 note). Sin is twofold; there is the leaving of God‘s will undone, and the actual wrongdoing. And every punishment is twofold: first, there is the loss of the blessing which would have followed upon obedience, and secondly, the presence of actual misery. Because they have defiled … - Rather, “because they have profaned My land with…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-21Verses 14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from antichristian oppression. But none of the sins of sinners can be hidden from God, or shall be overlooked by him. He will find out and raise up instruments of his wrath, that shall destroy the Jews, by fraud like fishers, by force like hunters. The…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18The punishment was severe—slaughter and exile—because the people of Judah broke the two most important commandments. They did not love God (Deuteronomy 6:4–5), and they did not love their neighbors (Leviticus 19:18; see also Matthew 22:37–40).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. first ... double--Horsley translates, "I will recompense ... once and again"; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities--the Babylonian and the Roman. Maurer, "I will recompense their former iniquities (those long ago committed by their fathers) and their (own) repeated sins" (Jr 16:11, 12). English Version gives a good sense, "First (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, fully and amply, Jr…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 16:18

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Abomination
• Carcass; Carcase
• Detestable, Things
• Double

Commentaries on Jeremiah 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings