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Jeremiah 4:18
18“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the 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.
- 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.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Your own actions have brought this upon you. This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”
Context of Jeremiah 4:18
16“Tell this to the nations, proclaim concerning Jerusalem: ‘A besieging army is coming from a distant land, raising a war cry against the cities of Judah. 17They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me,’ ” declares the Lord. “Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!” 19Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry. 20Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter 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 yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 5:19And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’
- Jeremiah 6:19Hear, you earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.
- Jeremiah 26:19“Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah fear the Lord and seek his favor? And did not the Lord relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”
- Job 20:5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
- Psalms 107:17Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.
- Proverbs 1:31they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
- Proverbs 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
- Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Jeremiah 4:10Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the 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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