Jer 16:18 | JFB | STEP | 18. first ... double-- Horsley translates, "I will recompense ... once and again"; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities--the Babylonian and the Roman. Maurer, "I will recompense their former iniquities (those long ago committed by their fathers) and their (own) repeated sins" ( , ). English Version gives a good sense, "First (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, fully and amply, ; ) recompense." carcasses-- not sweet-smelling sacrifices acceptable to God, but "carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims ( ; ), and unclean animals ( ; ). Maurer explains it, "the carcasses" of the idols: their images void of sense and life. Compare , . favors this.

‏ Jeremiah 16:18

18. first ... double--Horsley translates, "I will recompense ... once and again"; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities--the Babylonian and the Roman. Maurer, "I will recompense their former iniquities (those long ago committed by their fathers) and their (own) repeated sins" (Jr 16:11, 12). English Version gives a good sense, "First (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, fully and amply, Jr 17:18; Is 40:2) recompense."

carcasses--not sweet-smelling sacrifices acceptable to God, but "carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims (Jr 19:5; Eze 16:20), and unclean animals (Is 65:4; 66:17). Maurer explains it, "the carcasses" of the idols: their images void of sense and life. Compare Jr 16:19, 20. Le 26:30 favors this.