Jeremiah 5:25

25 Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the 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 for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone [away].

24 And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the [one who] gives [the] autumn rain and [the] spring rain in its season, {the set times of the harvest} he keeps for us.'

25 Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.

26 For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.

27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.