Jeremiah 9:16 meaning and explanation

I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

Jeremiah 9:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah 9:16 falls within a covenant lawsuit speech that the prophet delivers to Judah. The LORD, speaking through Jeremiah, has just named the people's sin: they abandoned his law and followed the Baals their fathers taught them (verses 13 to 14).

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