Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah 4:18
18Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!
Jeremiah 4:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart.”
Context of Jeremiah 4:18
16Warn the nations: Look! Proclaim to Jerusalem: Those who besiege are coming from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah. 17They have her surrounded like those who guard a field, because she has rebelled against me. This is the Lord’s declaration. Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart! 19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn — the shout of battle. 20Disaster after disaster is reported because the whole land is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my tent curtains, in a moment.
Read all of Jeremiah 4Jeremiah 4:18 word by word
דַּרְכֵּךְ֙ וּמַ֣עֲלָלַ֔יִךְ עָשׂ֥וֹ אֵ֖לֶּה לָ֑ךְ זֹ֤את רָעָתֵךְ֙ כִּ֣י מָ֔ר כִּ֥י נָגַ֖ע עַד־לִבֵּֽךְ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 4:18
- Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
- Jeremiah 5:19When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us? ’ You will respond to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
- Jeremiah 6:19Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.
- Jeremiah 26:19Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did not the king fear the Lord and plead for the Lord’s favor, and did not the Lord relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”
- Job 20:5the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
- Psalms 107:17Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.
- Proverbs 1:31they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.
- Proverbs 5:22A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
- Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
- Jeremiah 4:10I said, “Oh no, Lord God, you have certainly deceived this people and Jerusalem, by announcing, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
Commentaries on Jeremiah 4:18
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Thy wickedness - This siege is thy wickedness, i. e., in its results; or better, this is thy wretchedness, this army and thy approaching ruin is thy misery. Because - “For.” To feel that one‘s misery is the result of one‘s own doings adds bitterness to the anguish, and makes it reach, penetrate to the heart.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-18Verses 5-18 The fierce conqueror of the neighbouring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by false prophets. The approach of the enemy is described. Some attention was paid in Jerusalem to outward reformation; but it was necessary that their hearts should be washed, in the exercise of true repentance and faith, from the love and pollution of sin. When lesser calamities do not rouse sinners…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-18Foreign armies had already surrounded the capital city. The attack was coming because the people rebelled against the Lord.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. (Jr 2:17, 19; Psa 107:17). this is thy wickedness--that is, the fruit of thy wickedness.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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