I will recompense — Before I will restore them, I will plentifully punish them, (for so double here signifies, not the double of what their sins deserve.) Defiled — By their idolatry, blood and cruelty. Detestable — Unclean beasts offered to their idols, or innocent persons slain by them.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 16:18
Jeremiah 16:18
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.