Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 107:17He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
Jeremiah 14:7If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.
Lamentations 4:22Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Sion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he visited thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins. The Prayer of Jeremias the Prophet.
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 →