1 Punishment and promise
1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of ch. 15:2grievous deaths; they shall not be ch. 22:18;& 25:33lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be Ps. 83:10;ch. 8:2;& 9:22as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their Ps. 79:2;ch. 7:33;& 34:20carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the Lord, Ezek. 24:17,22,23Enter not into the house of [a]mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, ch. 22:18neither shall men lament for them, nor Lev. 19:28;Deut. 14:1;ch. 41:5;& 47:5cut themselves, nor Is. 22:12;ch. 7:29make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men Ezek. 24:17;Hos. 9:4;See Deut. 26:14;Job 42:11[b]tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to Prov. 31:6drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, Is. 24:7,8;Ezek. 26:13;Hos. 2:11;Rev. 18:23I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Deut. 29:24;ch. 5:19Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Deut. 29:25;ch. 22:9Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done ch. 7:26worse than your fathers; for behold, ch. 13:10ye walk every one after the [c]imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
13 Deut. 4:26;& 28:36,63Therefore will I cast you out of this land ch. 15:14into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 Therefore behold, the Is. 43:18;ch. 23:7,8days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and ch. 24:6;& 30:3;& 32:37I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many Amos 4:2;Hab. 1:15fishers, 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.
17 For mine Job 34:21;Prov. 5:21;& 15:3;ch. 32:19eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin Is. 40:2;ch. 17:18double; because Ezek. 43:7they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O Lord, Ps. 18:2my strength, and my fortress, and ch. 17:17my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things Is. 44:10;ch. 10:5wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and Is. 37:19;ch. 2:11;Gal. 4:8they are no gods?
21 Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that Ex. 15:3;ch. 33:2;Amos 5:8my name is [d]The Lord.
22 God, the hope of Israel
