Jeremiah 4:18

"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

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In The King James Version

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

In Context

17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says the Lord.

19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,and because of their iniquities.

Proverbs 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Jeremiah 2:17"Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way?

Jeremiah 5:19It will happen, when you say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

Jeremiah 14:16The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them."

Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.VAV

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 →

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