Jeremiah 16:16

Jeremiah 16:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
• New International Version (NIV)“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Context of Jeremiah 16:16

14Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yhwh, that it shall no more be said, Yhwh liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15But, Yhwh liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Yhwh, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18And 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.

Jeremiah 16:16 word by word

הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁלֵ֜חַ לְדַיָּגִ֥ים רַבִּ֛ים נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה וְדִיג֑וּם וְאַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֗ן אֶשְׁלַח֙ לְרַבִּ֣ים צַיָּדִ֔ים וְצָד֞וּם מֵעַ֤ל כָּל־הַר֙ וּמֵעַ֣ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֔ה וּמִנְּקִיקֵ֖י הַסְּלָעִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• Behold, I will sendשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
• for manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• fishersדַּוָּגdavvâg · fisherH1728
• fishersדַּיָּגdayâg · fisherH1771
• saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• Yhwhיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• and they shall fishדִּיגdîyg · to fishH1770
• them; and afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• huntersצַיָּדtsayâd · hunterH6719
• and they shall huntצוּדtsûd · to huntH6679
• them from every mountainהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• and from every hillגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• and out of the holesנָקִיקnâqîyq · cleftH5357
• of the rocksסֶ֫לַעsela‛ · cragH5553

Cross-references for Jeremiah 16:16

• Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Yhwh, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Amos 4:2The Lord Yhwh hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
• Habakkuk 1:14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• Genesis 10:9He was a mighty hunter before Yhwh: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Yhwh.
• 1 Samuel 24:11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
• 1 Samuel 26:20Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of Yhwh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
• Micah 7:2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
• Isaiah 24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
• Amos 5:19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
• Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
• Luke 17:34I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
• Revelation 6:15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

Commentaries on Jeremiah 16:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16I will send for many fishers - for many hunters - I shall raise up enemies against them some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. This seems to be the meaning of these symbolical fishers and hunters.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16The scattering of the people is to be like that of hunted animals, of which but few escape, the ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything within it to some place where it was destroyed. The destruction of the whole male population was one of the horrible customs of ancient warfare, and the process is called in Herodotus “sweeping the country with a drag-net.” The same authority tells us that…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. 16The fishermen and hunters were the Babylonian soldiers God used to carry out his judgment (see Habakkuk 1:14–16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. send for--translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" (2Ch 17:7). fishers ... hunters--successive invaders of Judea (Am 4:2; Ha 1:14, 15). So "net" (Eze 12:13). As to "hunters," see Ge 10:9; Mi 7:2. The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their…Read the comment

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• Fishhooks
• Hunting
• Fish
• Fisher; Fisherman
• Food

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