Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Cross-reference

Jeremiah 48:44 uses trap and snare imagery for judgment on Moab — strong parallel to the hunting/catching in 16:16.

In Jeremiah 25:9, God sends Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Judah — judgment rather than gathering. Both involve God sending agents but with opposite purposes.

Jeremiah 6:9 uses grape-gathering metaphor for judgment — parallel to the fishing/hunting metaphor in 16:16 for gathering people.

Amos 4:2 Parallel

Amos 4:2 uses fishhooks to depict judgment — similar fishing imagery for catching people, likely also judgment.

Amos 9:1-3 declares no one can hide from God's judgment—whether in Sheol, heaven, or sea—directly parallels the hunters searching every cleft.

In Habakkuk 1:14, men are compared to fish with no ruler—the same fishing metaphor for divine judgment as the fishers sent here.

Habakkuk 1:15 describes catching men with hooks and nets—directly parallel to the fishermen sent to catch them here.

Isaiah 2:19 Parallel

Isaiah 2:19 describes people hiding in rock caves from God's terror — directly paralleling the rock clefts hiding place in Jeremiah's judgment.

In Ezekiel 32:3, the same net/fishing imagery is used for judgment on Pharaoh, mirroring the hunters/fishermen sent against Israel.

Hosea 7:12 Parallel

In Hosea 7:12, God spreads a net to catch them like birds, directly paralleling the fishing/hunting imagery in Jeremiah 16:16.

Amos 9:3 Parallel

In Amos 9:3, God searches out sinners hiding on Carmel or sea bottom, matching the hunting from clefts of rocks in Jeremiah 16:16.

Revelation 6:15-17 depicts people hiding in rocks from divine wrath — echoing the hunted refugees in clefts of rocks in Jeremiah.

Zephaniah 1:12 has God searching Jerusalem with lamps, a thorough hunt like the hunters in Jeremiah 16:16.