Jeremiah 5:25
What does Jeremiah 5:25 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 5:25 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.
Context
v.24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
v.25This passage
v.26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Deuteronomy 28:23
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
- Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Isaiah 59:2
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- 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 uncover thy sins.
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