Jeremiah 4:18
Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.
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Psalms 107:17Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.
Proverbs 5:22His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
Jeremiah 2:17Hast not thou procured this vnto thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 5:19And when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God doe these things vnto vs? then shalt thou answere them, Like as ye haue forsaken me and serued strange gods in your land, so shall ye serue strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whome these prophets doe prophecie, shalbe cast out in the streetes of Ierusalem, because of the famine, and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them, both they, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters: for I wil powre their wickednes vpon them.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
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 →