Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

In Context

24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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Cross References

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

Isaiah 59:2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name’s sake, O LORD: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

Lamentations 4:22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover 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 →

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