Jeremiah 5:25

25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back 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 the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.