Isaiæ 16:18

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Et reddam primum duplices iniquitates et peccata eorum,
quia contaminaverunt terram meam in morticinis idolorum suorum,
et abominationibus suis impleverunt hæreditatem meam.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et reddam primum duplices iniquitates, et peccata eorum : quia contaminaverunt terram meam in morticinis idolorum suorum, et abominationibus suis impleverunt h�reditatem meam.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et reddam primum dupliciter iniquitates et peccata eorum, quia contaminaverunt terram meam in morticinis idolorum suorum et abominationibus suis impleverunt hereditatem meam".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

first: Jeremiah 17:18, Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 61:7, Revelation 18:6

they have defiled: Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 3:9, Leviticus 18:27, Leviticus 18:28, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, Psalms 106:38, Isaiah 24:5, Micah 2:10, Zephaniah 3:1-5

the carcases: Leviticus 26:30, Ezekiel 11:18, Ezekiel 11:21, Ezekiel 43:7-9

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:4 - he shall restore double Leviticus 18:25 - the land Leviticus 19:7 - abominable 1 Kings 21:26 - very abominably 2 Chronicles 15:8 - abominable idols Isaiah 65:6 - but Jeremiah 44:4 - this Jeremiah 51:5 - though Ezekiel 5:11 - detestable Ezekiel 7:4 - but Ezekiel 8:10 - every Ezekiel 36:17 - they defiled Hosea 9:3 - the Lord's 1 Timothy 5:17 - double 1 Peter 4:3 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double,.... Or, "but first I will recompense", c. f meaning, before he showed favour to them, and returned their captivity,

Jeremiah 16:15, he would punish them according to their sins; not double to what they deserved, but to what: they were used to have, or he was used to inflict upon them, punishing them less than their sins deserved; but now he would reward them to the full, though not beyond the measure of justice, yet largely and abundantly, and with rigour and severity. Some understand this of God's gathering together all their sins and iniquities "from the beginning" g, as they render the word; the sins of their fathers and their own, and punishing them for them all at once; or first their fathers' sins, and then their own, in which they imitated their fathers, and filled up the measure of their iniquity. So the Targum,

"and I will render to the second as to the first, for everyone of both, their iniquities and their sins.''

Because they have defiled my land; out of which he cast the Canaanites for the same reason; and which he chose for the place of his residence and worship, and settled the people of Israel for that purpose in it: that they might serve him in it, and not do as the Heathens before them had done, and which yet they did; and this was what was provoking to him.

They have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things; with their idols, which were not only lifeless, but stinking, loathsome, and abominable; or unclean creatures, which were sacrificed unto them; and some think human sacrifices, the bodies of men, are meant: places of idolatrous worship were set up everywhere in the land, and therefore it is said to be filled therewith; and it was an aggravation of their wickedness, that this was done in a land which the Lord had chosen for his own possession, and had given to Israel as an inheritance.

f ושלמתי ראשונה "sed reddum primum". g ראשונה "ab initio" Calvin; "initio", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

First - Before the return from exile.

I will recompense their iniquity ... double - The ordinary rule of the Law (Isaiah 40:2 note). Sin is twofold; there is the leaving of God’s will undone, and the actual wrongdoing. And every punishment is twofold: first, there is the loss of the blessing which would have followed upon obedience, and secondly, the presence of actual misery.

Because they have defiled ... - Rather, “because they have profaned My land with the carcases of their detestable things” (their lifeless and hateful idols, the very touch of which pollutes like that of a corpse, Numbers 19:11); “and hare filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 16:18. The carcasses of their detestable - things. — Either meaning the idols themselves, which were only carcasses without life; or the sacrifices which were made to them.