The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 16:16 (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.

 

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Jeremiah 16:17 (NKJV)
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

 

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Jeremiah 16;18 (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.”

 

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Jeremiah 16:19 (NKJV)
O LORD, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”

 

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Jeremiah 16:20 (NIV)

Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods !’

 

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Jeremiah 16:21 (NIV)

‘Therefore I will teach them – this time I will teach them my power and might.
Then they will know that my name is the Lord.

 

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Jeremiah 17:1 (ESV)
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

 

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Jeremiah 17:2 (ESV)
while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

 

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Jeremiah 17:3 (NIV)

My mountain in the land and your wealth and all your treasures I will give away as plunder, together with your high places,
because of sin throughout your country.

 

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Jeremiah 17:4 (NIV)

Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies
in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn for ever.’

 

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Jeremiah 17:5 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 17:6 (NKJV)
For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.

 

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Jeremiah 17:7 (NIV)

‘But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.

 

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Jeremiah 17:8 (NIV)

They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.’

 

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Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV)
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

 

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Jeremiah 17:10 (NKJV)
I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

 

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Jeremiah 17:11 (CSB)

He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.

 

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Jeremiah 17:12 (CSB)

A glorious throne on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

 

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Jeremiah 17:13 (CSB)

Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. All who turn away from me will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

 

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Jeremiah 17:14 (NKJV)
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.