Jeremiah 16
16:1And the word of the lord came to me saying,
16:2You should not take a wife, and there shall not be engendered to you a son nor daughter in this place.
16:3For thus says the lord, Concerning the sons and the daughters of the ones being engendered in this place, and concerning their mothers giving them birth, and concerning their fathers engendering them in this land;
16:4by a diseased death they shall die; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be entombed; for they will be an example upon the face of the earth. By the sword they shall fall, and in hunger they shall be finished off entirely. And their corpses shall be for food to the wild beasts of the earth, and to the winged creatures of the heaven.
16:5Thus says the lord, You should not enter into their revelry, and you should not go in to lament, and you should not mourn them. For I have removed my peace from this people, says the lord, even mercy and charity.
16:6And great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and they shall not be lamented, they shall not beat their chest for them, nor shall they make cuts, and they shall not be shaven;
16:7and in no way should bread be broken in their mourning for consolation over one having died; they shall not give a drink for them of a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
16:8You shall not enter into a residence with a banquet to sit down with them to eat and to drink.
16:9For thus says the lord God of Israel, Behold, I depose from out of this place before your eyes, and in your days a voice of joy, and a voice of gladness, the voice of the groom, and the voice of the bride.
16:10And it will be whenever you should announce to this people all these matters, then they shall say to you, Why did the lord speak against us all these evils? What is our injustice, and what is our sin which we sinned before the lord our God?
16:11And you shall say to them, Because your fathers abandoned me, says the lord; and they set out after strange gods, and they served to them, and did obeisance to them; and they abandoned me, and they did not keep my law.
16:12And you were wicked above your fathers. And behold, you each go after the things pleasing your heart -- the evils, to not obey me.
16:13And I will throw you away from this land, into a land which you knew not -- you and your fathers. And you shall serve there strange gods day and night, the ones that shall not grant mercy to you.
16:14On account of this, behold, days come, says the lord, and they shall not still say, As the lord lives, the one leading up the sons of Israel from out of the land of Egypt.
16:15But they shall say, As the lord lives, who led the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the places where they were pushed out there. And I shall restore them unto their land which I gave to their fathers.
16:16Behold, I send many fishermen, says the lord, and they shall fish them. And after these I shall send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and from out of the holes of the rocks.
16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways, and their offences were not hid before my eyes.
16:18And I shall recompense double their iniquities, and their sins upon which they profaned my land by the decaying flesh of their abominations, and by their lawless deeds in which they filled my inheritance.
16:19O lord my strength and my help and my refuge in a day of evils. To you nations shall come from the ends of the earth. And they shall say, O how false the idols our fathers acquired, and there is no benefit in them.
16:20Shall a man make for himself gods, and these are not gods?
16:21On account of this, behold, I will make manifest to them my hand in this time; and I shall make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the lord.