Jeremiah 16:18

God will first repay their iniquity double because they have defiled His land with lifeless idols and filled His inheritance with abominations. Their persistent idolatry has polluted the land and demands full recompense.

Cross-references · 17

• Isa 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
• Num 35:33–34Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
• Jer 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
• Rev 18:6Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
• Ezek 11:21But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Jer 2:7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
• Isa 61:7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
• Zeph 3:1–5Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
• Ezek 11:18When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.
• Jer 3:9Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
• Ezek 43:7–9and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
• Ps 106:38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
• Mic 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
• Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
• Jer 3:1–2“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
• Lev 18:27–28For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
• Isa 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

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