Jeremiah 16
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14–15 But He was not forsaking them completely: He would preserve a remnant (Isaiah 10:20–23). Just as the Lord had delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt, so He would deliver His exiled people from the land of the north (Babylon) and from wherever else they had been scattered. Though God had canceled His covenant with this present generation, in due time He would again be merciful to the faithful remnant who survived.
16–18 But for now, says the Lord, the fishermen and hunters (the invading Babylonians) will seek out every one of Judah’s disobedient people; no one will be able to hide or escape. God will repay Judah’s people double—in full—for their sin.
19–21 In verse 19, Jeremiah praises the Lord for His promise that Israel will one day be restored and that nations (Gentiles) will come from the ends of the earth to serve Israel’s God—a picture of the Messianic age (see Isaiah 2:1–4 and comment). The nations will acknowledge that the idols worshiped by earlier generations of Israelites were false and worthless.
In verse 21, the Lord assures Jeremiah that He will teach them—both Jews and Gentiles—that He is the Lord, that His name is the LORD.59