Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.

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In The King James Version

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

In Context

24And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’

26For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.

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Cross References

Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.

Jeremiah 3:3For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.

Jeremiah 14:7“O Lord, if our iniquities have responded against us, let it be for the sake of your name. For our rebellions are many; we have sinned against you.

Lamentations 4:22THAU. Your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion. He will no longer send you away to captivity. He has visited your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he has uncovered your 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 →

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