Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:17Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you — from hearing.

Jeremiah 3:3And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 14:7Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

Lamentations 4:22Completed [is] thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed [thee] because of 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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