Jeremiah 16:16

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “I am sending for many fishermen to come and catch these people. Then I will send for many hunters to hunt them down on every mountain and hill and in the caves among the rocks.

Cross References

Genesis 10:9

By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, “May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!”

Isaiah 2:21

When the Lord comes to shake the earth, people will hide in holes and caves in the rocky hills to try to escape from his anger and to hide from his power and glory.

Isaiah 7:19

They will swarm in the rugged valleys and in the caves in the rocks, and they will cover every thorn bush and every pasture.

Jeremiah 25:9

‘I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 4:29

At the noise of the cavalry and archers everyone will run away. Some will run to the forest; others will climb up among the rocks. Every town will be left empty, and no one will live in them again.

Jeremiah 49:5

I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.

Jeremiah 6:9

The Lord Almighty said to me, “Israel will be stripped clean like a vineyard from which every grape has been picked. So you must rescue everyone you can while there is still time.”

Lamentations 4:18

The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets. Our days were over; the end had come.

Lamentations 4:19

Swifter than eagles swooping from the sky, they chased us down. They tracked us down in the hills; they took us by surprise in the desert.

Hosea 10:10

I will attack this sinful people and punish them. Nations will join together against them, and they will be punished for their many sins.

Amos 4:2

As the Sovereign Lord is holy, he has promised, “The days will come when they will drag you away with hooks; every one of you will be like a fish on a hook.

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake!

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Zephaniah 1:12

“At that time I will take a lamp and search Jerusalem. I will punish the people who are self-satisfied and confident, who say to themselves, ‘The Lord never does anything, one way or the other.’

1 Samuel 24:11

Look, my father, look at the piece of your robe I am holding! I could have killed you, but instead I only cut this off. This should convince you that I have no thought of rebelling against you or of harming you. You are hunting me down to kill me, even though I have not done you any wrong.

1 Samuel 26:20

Don't let me be killed on foreign soil, away from the Lord. Why should the king of Israel come to kill a flea like me? Why should he hunt me down like a wild bird?”