Jeremiah 16:17
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Jeremiah 16:17 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Jeremiah 16:17 is a verse from the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Jeremiah 16:17 — KJV
“For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.”
— Jeremiah 16:17 (KJV)
Jeremiah 16:17 in Context — About the Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah preached for forty years to a nation that would not listen, weeping as Jerusalem fell. Yet from the rubble come some of Scripture's most hopeful promises: plans to prosper and not harm, a new covenant written on hearts, and a God who invites us to call and see great things.
Cross-References for Jeremiah 16:17
“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. violated: Heb. offered violence to”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 16:17: mine, eyes, hid
“And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 16:17: eyes, ways, hid
“And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 16:17: eyes, hid, neither
“Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. bribe: Heb. ransom to blind...: or, that I should hide mine eyes at him”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 16:17: mine, eyes, hid
“Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 16:17: mine, eyes, ways
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