Jeremiah 5:25

Jeremiah 5:25 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
• New International Version (NIV)Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

Context of Jeremiah 5:25

23But these people do not obey me, as the waves do. They have turned away from me. They have chosen to go their own way. 24They do not say to themselves, “We should respect the Lord our God. He sends rain for us in the autumn and in the spring. He makes sure that we have a harvest from our crops.” But instead, your sins have stopped these good things. You have not received God's blessing. 26There are wicked men among my people. They like to catch people and rob them. They hide like someone who wants to catch a bird. They put out their traps to kill what they want. 27Their houses are full of valuable things, like a trap that is full of beautiful birds. They have cheated people and they have robbed them. That is how they have become rich and powerful.

Jeremiah 5:25 word by word

עֲוֹנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם הִטּוּ־אֵ֑לֶּה וְחַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔ם מָנְע֥וּ הַטּ֖וֹב מִכֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Your iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• have turned awayנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
• and your sinsחַטָּאתchaţţâ'âh chaţţâ'th · sinH2403
• have withholdenמָנַעmâna‛ · to withholdH4513
• goodטוֹבţôb · goodH2896

Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:25

• Jeremiah 2:17You Israelites have caused this to happen. The Lord your God was leading you on the right way. But you decided not to follow him any longer.
• Jeremiah 3:3That is why I have not sent any rain on your land. Even the spring rains have not come. But you still live like a proud prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.
• Deuteronomy 28:23There will be no clouds in the sky above to give any rain. The ground under your feet will be as hard as iron.
• Psalms 107:17Some people became fools and they turned against God. They had trouble and pain because of their sins.
• Isaiah 59:2But the wrong things that you have done have made you separate from your God. Your sins have caused him to turn away from you, so that he does not listen to your prayers.
• Lamentations 3:39He only punishes us when we do wrong things. We are still alive, so we should not be angry with God.
• Lamentations 4:22God has finished punishing Zion's people. He will let them return to their homes soon. But you, Edom's people, God will certainly punish you. He will discover everything that you have done wrong.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Your iniquities have turned away these things - When these appointed weeks of harvest do not come, should we not examine and see whether this be not in God's judgments? Have not our iniquities turned away these good things from us?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20-31Verses 20-31 Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root. Jeremiah 5:22 The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-31Verses 19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and were wholly gone into…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-25The people mistakenly believed they could manage without the Lord, who gave rain for their crops (Deuteronomy 11:14). This wrongdoing led them to miss out on wonderful blessings and good things (Jeremiah 3:3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. National guilt had caused the suspension of these national mercies mentioned in Jr 5:24 (compare Jr 3:3).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 5:25

• Backsliders
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Deceit
• Exodus, the Book of
• Jeremiah (2)

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5

• 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