16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.


In Context

13 And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

15 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

17 Thus said the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Jeremiah 9:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:16And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.