Jeremiah 16:16

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Summary

Behold, I will send for many fishers, 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.

I will send

Jeremiah 25:9

Amos 4:2

Habakkuk 1:14

Hunters

Every mountain

Revelation 6:15

General references

Ezekiel 32:3

Matthew 24:28

Bible References

I will send

See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

Hunters

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Every mountain

Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;

General references

This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.