Jeremiah 16:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, says the Lord, and they will fish them out; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I’m going to send hordes of fishermen to catch them, declares the LORD. Afterward I will send a party of hunters to hunt them down on every mountain, hill, and cave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Behold, I will send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they will fish for them. And after this, I will send many hunters to them, and they will hunt for them on every mountain, and on every hilltop, and in the caverns of the rocks.

Jeremiah 16:16 Cross References

Genesis 10:9

He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, ‘Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.’

Isaiah 2:21

They will go into the caves of the rocks and the crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the  Lord and from his majestic splendour, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 7:19

All of them will come and settle in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the water holes.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the families of the north”   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror  and scorn, and ruins for ever.

Jeremiah 4:29

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and the archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

Jeremiah 49:5

Look, I am about to bring terror on you   – this is the declaration of the Lord  God of Armies – from all those around you. You will be banished, each person headlong, with no one to gather up the fugitives.

Jeremiah 6:9

This is what the Lord of Armies says: Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.

Lamentations 4:18

Our steps were closely followed so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end approached;  our time ran out. Our end had come!

Lamentations 4:19

Those who chased us were swifter than eagles in the sky; they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Hosea 10:10

I will discipline  them at my discretion; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double iniquity.

Amos 4:2

The Lord God has sworn  by his holiness: Look, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, every last one of you with fish hooks.

Amos 5:19

It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.

Micah 7:2

Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who settle down comfortably,  , who say to themselves: ‘The Lord will do nothing #– #good or bad.’

1 Samuel 24:11

Look, my father!  Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Recognise  that I’ve committed no crime or rebellion. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.

1 Samuel 26:20

So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea,  like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.’