Jeremiah 16:17

Contemporary English Version

I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for my gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.

Hebrew Names Version
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

King James Version
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

English Standard Version
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

New American Standard Bible
"For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their wrongdoing concealed from My eyes.

New Century Version
I see everything they do. They cannot hide from me the things they do; their sin is not hidden from my eyes.

Amplified Bible
"For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their wickedness concealed from My eyes.

World English Bible
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For mine eyes are vpon al their wayes: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eyes.

Legacy Standard Bible
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

Berean Standard Bible
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I see all their ways; they are not hidden from me; their crimes are not concealed from my eyes.

Darby Translation
For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not concealed from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from before mine eyes.

Easy-to-Read Version
I see everything they do. The people of Judah cannot hide the things they do. Their sin is not hidden from me.

George Lamsa Translation
For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.

Good News Translation
I see everything they do. Nothing is hidden from me; their sins do not escape my sight.

Lexham English Bible
For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from before me, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.

Literal Translation
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face; their iniquity is not hidden from My eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For myne eyes beholde all their wayes, and they can not be hyd fro my face, nether can their wicked dedes be kepte close out of my sight.

American Standard Version
For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

Bible in Basic English
For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they are not hid from My face; neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes.

King James Version (1611)
For mine eyes are vpon all their waies: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eies.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For mine eyes behold all their wayes, and they can not be hyd fro my face: neither can their wicked deedes be kept close out of my sight.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.

English Revised Version
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For myn iyen ben on alle the weies of hem; tho weies ben not hid fro my face, and the wickidnesse of hem was not priuy fro myn iyen.

Update Bible Version
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.

New English Translation
For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

New King James Version
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

New Living Translation
I am watching them closely, and I see every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me.

New Life Bible
For I see all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their sin is not hidden from My eyes.

New Revised Standard
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For mine own eyes are upon all their ways, they have not been hid from my face - neither hath their iniquity been concealed from being straight before mine eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Revised Standard Version
For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Young's Literal Translation
For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ A time will come when you will again worship me. But you will no longer call me the Living God who rescued Israel from Egypt. ¹⁵ Instead, you will call me the Living God who rescued you from that country in the north and from the other countries where I had forced you to go. Someday I will bring you back to this land that I gave your ancestors. ¹⁶ But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves. ¹⁷ I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me. ¹⁸ I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies. ¹⁹ I prayed to the Lord : Our Lord , you are the one who gives me strength and protects me like a fortress when I am in trouble. People will come to you from distant nations and say, "Our ancestors worshiped false and useless gods, ²⁰ worthless idols made by human hands." ²¹ Then the Lord replied, "That's why I will teach them about my power, and they will know that I am the true God."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 23:24, Jeremiah 32:19, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Job 34:21, Job 34:22, Psalms 90:8, Psalms 139:3, Proverbs 5:21, Proverbs 15:3, Isaiah 29:15, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:9, Luke 12:1, Luke 12:2, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Hebrews 4:13

Reciprocal: Job 31:4 - General Psalms 10:14 - Thou hast Psalms 51:9 - Hide Psalms 53:2 - looked Psalms 69:5 - hid Isaiah 65:12 - did evil Jeremiah 2:22 - yet thine iniquity Jeremiah 7:11 - even Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Jeremiah 29:23 - even I Ezekiel 11:5 - for Hosea 7:2 - are before Zephaniah 1:12 - that I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For mine eyes are upon all their ways,.... Not only which they may take to hide themselves from their enemies, and where they should be directed to find them; but their evil ways in which they walked, and which were the cause of their calamities; these, how secret soever they were, were under the eye of God, whose eyes are in every place, and upon all the ways of men, good and bad; though they might flatter themselves, as wicked men sometimes do, that the Lord sees them not, and does not take notice of their iniquities: but, that they might be assured of the contrary, it is added,

they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes; neither their ways nor their works, their persons nor their actions, could be concealed from the Lord; none can hide himself in secret places, that they should not be seen by him; the darkness and the light are both alike to an omniscient God. The Targum is,

"their iniquities are not hid from before (or from, or the sight of) my Word;''

the essential Word of God; see Hebrews 4:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This chastisement arises not from caprice, but is decreed upon full knowledge and examination of their doings.