Jeremiah 16:1

Young's Literal Translation

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came also to me, saying,

King James Version
The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to me:

Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The worde of the Lorde came also vnto mee, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
The word of Yahweh also came to me saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to me:

Complete Jewish Bible
This word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's message came to me:

George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
Again the Lord spoke to me and said,

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, thus sayde the LORDE vnto me:

American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord came also vnto me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus sayde the Lorde vnto me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt not take a wife, saith the Lord God of Israel:

English Revised Version
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD came also to me, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord said to me,

New King James Version
The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord gave me another message. He said,

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me, saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me:

THE MESSAGE
God 's Message to me:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word of the LORD also came to me saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: ² Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place. ³ For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land: ⁴ Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth. ⁵ For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies. ⁶ And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them. ⁷ Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother. ⁸ A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink, ⁹ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The word: Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 2:1

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 47:5 - how

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child.

Genesis 12:16
and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels.

Genesis 16:2
and Sarai saith unto Abram, `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:3
And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,

Genesis 16:9
And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;'

Genesis 16:10
and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'

Genesis 21:12
and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

Genesis 21:21
and he dwelleth in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother taketh for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 25:21
And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she [is] barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

Judges 13:2
And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name [is] Manoah, his wife [is] barren, and hath not borne;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The Targum is, the word of prophecy from the Lord: whether this is a new prophecy, or the former continued, is not certain; the latter seems probable. This introduction is omitted in the Septuagint and Arabic versions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In this prophecy Jeremiah 16:1-18, the punishment of the people is set forth in even sterner terms than in the last. The whole land is likened to a desert covered with the bodies of the dead, who lie unbemoaned and uncared for; and the prophet himself is commanded to abstain from the common usages of mankind that his motto of life, as well as his words, may warn the people of the greatness of the approaching calamity. There is, however, to be finally a return from exile, but only after the idolatry of the nation has been severely punished. The prophecy was probably written about the close of Jehoiakim’s reign.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVI

On account of the evils which threatened his country, the

prophet is forbidden to encumber himself with a wife and

family, or to bear any share in the little joys and sorrows of

his neighbours, which were to be forgotten and absorbed in

those public calamities, 1-9,

which their sins should draw on them, 10-13.

A future restoration however is intimated, 14, 15,

after these calamities should be endured, 16-18;

and the conversion of the Gentiles is foretold, 19-21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVI

Verse Jeremiah 16:1. The word of the Lord came also unto me — This discourse Dahler supposes to have been delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim.