Parallel Verses English Standard Version Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. King James Bible Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. American Standard Version Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. Douay-Rheims Bible Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you. English Revised Version Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. Webster's Bible Translation Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you. Jeremiah 5:25 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThis calamity Judah is preparing for itself by its obduracy and excess of wickedness. - Jeremiah 5:19. "And if ye then shall say, Wherefore hath Jahveh our God done all this unto us? then say to them, Like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. Jeremiah 5:20. Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, Jeremiah 5:21. Hear now this, foolish people without understanding, that have eyes and see not, have ears and hear not. Jeremiah 5:22. Me will ye not fear, saith Jahve, nor tremble before me? who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, an everlasting boundary that it passes not, and its waves toss themselves and cannot, and roar and pass not over. Jeremiah 5:23. But this people hath a stubborn and rebellious heart; they turned away and went. Jeremiah 5:24. And said not in their heart: Let us now fear Jahveh our God, who giveth rain, the early rain and the late rain, in its season; who keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Jeremiah 5:25. Your iniquities have turned away these, and your sins have withholden the good from you. Jeremiah 5:26. For among my people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as fowlers stoop; they set a trap, they catch men. Jeremiah 5:27. As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore are they become great and rich. Jeremiah 5:28. They are grown fat and sleek, they go beyond bound in wickedness; the cause they try not, the cause of the orphans, that they might have prosperity; and the right of the needy they judge not. Jeremiah 5:29. Shall I not punish this? saith Jahveh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this? Jeremiah 5:30. The appalling and horrible is done in the land. Jeremiah 5:31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule under their lead, and my people loves it so. But what will ye do in the end thereof." The thought of Jeremiah 5:19, that the people, by its apostasy, draws down this judgment on itself, forms the transition from the threat of punishment to the reproof of sins. The penalty corresponds to the sin. Because Judah in its own land serves the gods of foreigners, so it must serve strangers in a foreign land. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge See on ch. Lamentations 3:39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Cross References Jeremiah 2:17 Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way? Jeremiah 4:18 Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart." Jump to Previous Deprived Evil-Doing Good Iniquities Kept Sins Turned Withheld Withholden WrongdoingsJump to Next Deprived Evil-Doing Good Iniquities Kept Sins Turned Withheld Withholden WrongdoingsLinks Jeremiah 5:25 NIVJeremiah 5:25 NLT Jeremiah 5:25 ESV Jeremiah 5:25 NASB Jeremiah 5:25 KJV Jeremiah 5:25 Bible Apps Jeremiah 5:25 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 5:25 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 5:25 French Bible Jeremiah 5:25 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |