Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to your heart.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
17As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because you, says the Lord, has neglected me.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Jeremiah 2:17Has not your forsaking me brought these things upon you? says the Lord your God.
Jeremiah 5:19And it shall come to pass, when you⌃ shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you⌃ served strange gods in your land, so shall you⌃ serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Lamentations 3:15VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:6-19
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,… Read the whole commentary →