Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden what is good from you.
Leeser Tanakh
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, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have ever made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you, so that he would not hear.
Jeremiah 3:3And [though] the early showers were withholden, and the latter rain came not: yet hadst thou a forehead of an incestuous wife, thou refusedst to feel shame.
Jeremiah 14:7If our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, do thou act for the sake of thy name; for our backslidings are many; against thee have we sinned.
Lamentations 4:22Brought to an end is thy iniquity, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into exile: He visiteth thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He layeth open 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 →