Jeremiah 5:25

25 'Your ¹iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have withheld good 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 this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and departed.

24 'They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn rain and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest."

25 'Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

26 'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

27 'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 4:18