Jeremiah 16:14-21

¹⁴“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ ¹⁵but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

¹⁶“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks. ¹⁷For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their wrongdoing concealed from My eyes. ¹⁸I will first repay them double for their wrongdoing and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and their abominations.”

19Lord, my strength and my stronghold,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,

Futility, and things of no benefit.”

20Can a person make gods for himself?

But they are not gods!

21“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—

This time I will make them know

My power and My might;

And they will know that My name is the Lord.”