Jeremiah 5 · Verse 25

Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Jeremiah 5:25, King James Version

Jeremiah 5:25 in other translations

BSBYour iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
WEB“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
ASVYour iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
YLTYour iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
DARBYYour iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.
BBEThrough your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
WebsterYour iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

What does Jeremiah 5:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. National guilt had caused the suspension of these national mercies mentioned in Jr 5:24 (compare Jr 3:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Your 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?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 5:19-31

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…

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Jeremiah 5:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֲוֹנוֹתֵיכֶ֖םa.vo.no.tei.Kheminiquities yourH5771
הִטּוּ\־hi.tu-they have turned asideH5186
אֵ֑לֶּה'E.lehthese [things]H428
וְחַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔םve.cha.To.tei.Khemand sins yourH2403
מָנְע֥וּma.ne.'Uthey have withheldH4513
הַטּ֖וֹבha.Tov<the> goodH2896
מִכֶּֽם\׃mi.Kemfrom <the> you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 5:25

  • Isaiah 59:2

    But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

  • Psalms 107:34

    A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • Psalms 107:17

    Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • Deuteronomy 28:23-24

    And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

  • Jeremiah 2:17-19

    Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way? And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

  • Lamentations 4:22

    The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

  • Jeremiah 3:3

    Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

  • Lamentations 3:39

    Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:17-19; 3:3; De 28:23,24; Ps 107:17,34; Isa 59:2; La 3:39; 4:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 5:24

    Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

  • Jeremiah 5:25

    Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

  • Jeremiah 5:26

    For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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Jeremiah 5:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Vuestras iniquidades han estorbado estas cosas; y vuestros pecados apartaron de vosotros el bien.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vos iniquités ont détourné ces choses, et vos péchés ont retenu de vous le bien.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Eure Missetaten haben dieses weggewendet, und eure Sünden das Gute von euch abgehalten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Iniquitates vestræ declinaverunt hæc, et peccata vestra prohibuerunt bonum a vobis: