English Standard Version
Jeremiah 5:25
25Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
Context of Jeremiah 5:25
23But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away. 24They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.' Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. 26For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. 27Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;
Read all of Jeremiah 5Jeremiah 5:25 word by word
עֲוֹנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם הִטּוּ־אֵ֑לֶּה וְחַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔ם מָנְע֥וּ הַטּ֖וֹב מִכֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:25
- Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, when he led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Deuteronomy 28:23And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
- Psalms 107:17Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
- Isaiah 59:2but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
- Lamentations 3:39Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
- Lamentations 4:22The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
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
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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
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