1Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”
3For this is what the Lord says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”[ † ]Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 22:18Jeremiah 25:33Jeremiah 14:16Jeremiah 19:11Psalms 83:10Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 9:22Psalms 79:2Isaiah 18:6Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 34:20
5Indeed, this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the Lord.[ † ]Ezekiel 24:17-22, 23
6“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.[ † ]Jeremiah 22:18Leviticus 19:28Deuteronomy 14:1Jeremiah 41:5Jeremiah 47:5Isaiah 22:12Jeremiah 7:29 7No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.[ † ]Proverbs 31:6
8You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink. 9For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.[ † ]Isaiah 24:7-8Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 25:10Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:23
10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’[ † ]Deuteronomy 29:241 Kings 9:8Jeremiah 5:19
11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the Lord, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.[ † ]Deuteronomy 29:251 Kings 9:92 Chronicles 7:22Nehemiah 9:26-29Jeremiah 22:9 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.[ † ]Jeremiah 7:26Jeremiah 3:17Jeremiah 18:12 13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 28:36-63Jeremiah 15:14
14Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’[ † ]Isaiah 43:18Jeremiah 23:7-8Ezekiel 37:21-25 15Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.[ † ]Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 32:37
16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the Lord, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.[ † ]Amos 4:2Habakkuk 1:15
17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.[ † ]2 Chronicles 16:9Job 34:21Psalms 90:8Proverbs 5:21Jeremiah 23:24Jeremiah 32:19Zechariah 4:10Luke 12:21 Corinthians 4:5Hebrews 4:13 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.”[ † ]Isaiah 40:2Jeremiah 17:18Revelation 18:6Ezekiel 43:7