Jeremiah 5:25

25 Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

Jeremiah 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned away these things
Whereas of late years rain was withheld from them in common, and they had not the former and latter rain in its season, nor the appointed weeks of the harvest, and so their land was barren, and famine ensued. This was to be ascribed, not to the want of goodness and faithfulness in God, but to their own iniquities; these mercies were kept back from them in order to humble them, and bring them to a sense of their sins, and an acknowledgment of them: and your sins have withholden good things from you;
as rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, and had also brought many evil things upon them; for more is understood than is expressed.

Jeremiah 5:25 In-Context

23 But you people! You are stubborn and rebellious; you have turned aside and left me.

24 You never thought to honor me, even though I send the autumn rains and the spring rains and give you the harvest season each year.

25 Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

26 "Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

27 Just as a hunter fills a cage with birds, they have filled their houses with loot. That is why they are powerful and rich,