Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles, Matthew 4:19-20. And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Holy Ghost when convincing of sin, makes in the heart, in order to lead to Jesus? John 16:8.
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Jeremiah 16:16-18
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.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.