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Jeremiah 16

Jer. 16:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And first
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
I will recompense
shalam (Hebrew #7999)
to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
KJV usage: make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-)pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, X surely.
Pronounce: shaw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
their iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
and their sin
chatta'ah (Hebrew #2403)
from 2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
KJV usage: punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering).
Pronounce: khat-taw-aw'
Origin: or chattacth {khat-tawth'}
double
mishneh (Hebrew #4932)
properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount); by implication, a second (in order, rank, age, quality or location)
KJV usage: college, copy, double, fatlings, next, second (order), twice as much.
Pronounce: mish-neh'
Origin: from 8138
c; because theye have defiled
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
my land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, they have filled
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
mine inheritance
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
with the carcases
nbelah (Hebrew #5038)
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
KJV usage: (dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.
Pronounce: neb-ay-law'
Origin: from 5034
of their detestable
shiqquwts (Hebrew #8251)
from 8262; disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
Pronounce: shik-koots'
Origin: or shiqquts {shik-koots'}
and abominable things
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
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Isa. 40:2• 2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of toil is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. (Isa. 40:2)
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Ezek. 43:7,9• 7And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever: and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the carcasses of their kings in their sepulchres ;
 9Now let them remove their whoredom and the carcasses of their kings far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. (Ezek. 43:7,9)

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Jer. 17:18• 18{i}Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking{/i}. (Jer. 17:18)
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Isa. 40:2• 2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of toil is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. (Isa. 40:2)
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Isa. 61:7• 7Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; [instead of] confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. (Isa. 61:7)
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Rev. 18:6• 6Render to her as she also rendered, and double [the] double according to her works: in the cup which she mixed mix to her double. (Rev. 18:6)
they have defiled.
Jer. 2:7• 7{i}And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.{/i} (Jer. 2:7)
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Jer. 3:1‑2,9• 1{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
 2{i}Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.{/i}
 9{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i} (Jer. 3:1‑2,9)
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Lev. 18:27‑28• 27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
 28that the land vomit not you out also, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. (Lev. 18:27‑28)
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Num. 35:33‑34• 33{i}And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.{/i}
 34{i}And ye shall not defile the land that ye inhabit, in the midst whereof I dwell; for I am Jehovah who dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.{/i} (Num. 35:33‑34)
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Psa. 106:38• 38And shed innocent blood—{HR}Blood of their sons and their daughters,{HR}Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan,{HR}And the land was polluted with blood. (Psa. 106:38)
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Isa. 24:5• 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant. (Isa. 24:5)
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Mic. 2:10• 10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; it is polluted, {i}[it] bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.{/i} (Mic. 2:10)
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Zeph. 3:1‑5• 1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
 2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
 3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
 4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
 5The just Jehovah is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:1‑5)
the carcases.
Lev. 26:30• 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. (Lev. 26:30)
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Ezek. 11:18,21• 18And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
 21But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 11:18,21)
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Ezek. 43:7‑9• 7And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever: and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the carcasses of their kings in their sepulchres ;
 8while they set their threshold beside my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and the wall between me and them, they even defiled my holy name with their abominations which they committed, so that I consumed them in mine anger.
 9Now let them remove their whoredom and the carcasses of their kings far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. (Ezek. 43:7‑9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance.

W. Kelly Translation

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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.