Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities.
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.
Lamentations 4:22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover thy sins.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:21-25
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass… Read the whole commentary →