Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.” New Living Translation I will double their punishment for all their sins, because they have defiled my land with lifeless images of their detestable gods and have filled my territory with their evil deeds.” English Standard Version But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.” Berean Standard Bible And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.” King James Bible And 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. New King James Version 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.” New American Standard Bible I 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.” NASB 1995 “I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.” NASB 1977 “And I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.” Legacy Standard Bible I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have profaned My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.” Amplified Bible I will first doubly repay and punish them for their wickedness and their sin [before I return them to their land], because they have profaned My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.” Christian Standard Bible I will first repay them double for their iniquity and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.” Holman Christian Standard Bible I will first repay them double for their guilt and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.” American Standard Version And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And I shall pay them first, double their debts each, and their sins, because they polluted my land by the sacrifices of their idols, and with their abominations they have filled my inheritance Brenton Septuagint Translation And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance. Contemporary English Version I will punish you double for your sins, because you have polluted my own land. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies. Douay-Rheims Bible And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations. English Revised Version And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have polluted my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations. GOD'S WORD® Translation First, I will have them pay twice as much for their wickedness and their sin, because they have polluted my land. They have filled my property with the lifeless statues of their detestable and disgusting idols." Good News Translation I will make them pay double for their sin and wickedness, because they have defiled my land with idols that are as lifeless as corpses, and have filled it with their false gods." International Standard Version First I'll repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the dead bodies of their detestable images, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations." JPS Tanakh 1917 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; Because they have profaned My land; They have filled Mine inheritance With the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations. Literal Standard Version And I have repaid a first—A second time—their iniquity and their sin, | Because of their defiling My land, | With the carcass of their detestable things, | Indeed, their abominations have filled My inheritance.” Majority Standard Bible And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.” New American Bible I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations. NET Bible Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols." New Revised Standard Version And I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations. New Heart English Bible First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations." Webster's Bible Translation And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things. World English Bible First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.” Young's Literal Translation And I have recompensed a first -- A second time -- their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God will Restore Israel…17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes. 18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.” 19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.… Cross References Revelation 18:6 Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup. Numbers 35:33 Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Numbers 35:34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites." Isaiah 40:2 "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins." Isaiah 65:6 Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps, Jeremiah 2:7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable. Jeremiah 3:9 Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. Treasury of Scripture And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things. first. Jeremiah 17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. Isaiah 61:7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. they have defiled. Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. Jeremiah 3:1,2,9 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… Leviticus 18:27,28 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) … the carcases. Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. Ezekiel 11:18,21 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence… Ezekiel 43:7-9 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places… Jump to Previous Abominable Abominations Bodies Carcases Carcasses Defiled Detestable Disgusting Double Doubly Evil-Doing Filled First Forms Full Heritage Idols Inheritance Iniquity Lifeless Polluted Profaned Recompense Repay Reward Sin Twice Unclean Unholy Vile WickednessJump to Next Abominable Abominations Bodies Carcases Carcasses Defiled Detestable Disgusting Double Doubly Evil-Doing Filled First Forms Full Heritage Idols Inheritance Iniquity Lifeless Polluted Profaned Recompense Repay Reward Sin Twice Unclean Unholy Vile WickednessJeremiah 16 1. The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, 8. from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews; 10. because they were worse than their fathers. 14. Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt. 16. God will doubly recompense their idolatry. (18) I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double.--A restitution, or fine, to double the amount of the wrong done was almost the normal standard of punishment under the Law of Moses (Exodus 22:4; Exodus 22:7). The words threaten accordingly a full punishment according to the utmost rigour. In Isaiah 40:2 the same thought is presented in its brighter aspect. Israel has received "double for all her sins," and therefore, having paid, as it were, "the uttermost farthing" (Matthew 5:26), she may now hope for mercy. The carcases . . .--The word may be used in scorn of the lifeless form of the dumb idols which the people worshipped, to touch which was to be polluted, as by contact with a corpse (Numbers 19:11); but it more probably points to the dead bodies of the victims that had been sacrificed to them. The phrase occurs also in a like context in Leviticus 26:30. It would appear from Isaiah 65:4 that these often included animals which by the Law were unclean: "swine's flesh and broth of abominable things." . . . Verse 18. - First - i.e. before "I bring them back again into their land" - I will recompense... double; i.e. amply, in full measure (comp. Jeremiah 17:18; Isaiah 40:2; Revelation 18:6). With the carcasses, etc. The idols, which "defile the consciences" of those who worship them, are compared to the most unclean and loathsome objects.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And I will firstרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֗ה (ri·šō·w·nāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank repay them וְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֣י (wə·šil·lam·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate double מִשְׁנֵ֤ה (miš·nêh) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4932: A repetition, a duplicate, a double, a second their iniquity עֲוֺנָם֙ (‘ă·wō·nām) Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity and their sin, וְחַטָּאתָ֔ם (wə·ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender because עַ֖ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against they have defiled חַלְּלָ֣ם (ḥal·lə·lām) Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play My land אַרְצִ֑י (’ar·ṣî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 776: Earth, land with the carcasses בְּנִבְלַ֤ת (bə·niḇ·laṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol of their detestable idols, שִׁקּֽוּצֵיהֶם֙ (šiq·qū·ṣê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 8251: Disgusting, filthy, idolatrous, an idol and they have filled מָלְא֖וּ (mā·lə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of My inheritance נַחֲלָתִֽי׃ (na·ḥă·lā·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion with their abominations.” וְתוֹעֲב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם (wə·ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·hem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol Links Jeremiah 16:18 NIVJeremiah 16:18 NLT Jeremiah 16:18 ESV Jeremiah 16:18 NASB Jeremiah 16:18 KJV Jeremiah 16:18 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 16:18 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 16:18 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 16:18 French Bible Jeremiah 16:18 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 16:18 First I will recompense their iniquity (Jer.) |
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