Jeremiah 16:16-17 - Exposition

I will send for should rather be , I will send . Fishers and hunters , by a divinely given impulse, shall "fish" and "hunt" the unhappy fugitives from their lurking-places. There may, perhaps, be an allusion to the cruel ancient practice of "sweeping the country with a drag-net" (Herod, 3.149), and then destroying the male population: Samos, e.g. was thus "netted" and depopulated by the Persians. Habakkuk may also refer to this when he says ( Habakkuk 1:15 ), "They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag ."