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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 5:25 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 5:25 |
King James |
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| National guilt had caused the suspension of these national mercies mentioned in Jer 5:24 (compare Jer 3:3). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Your iniquities have turned away these things - When these appointed weeks of harvest do not come, should we not examine and see whether this be not in God's judgments? Have not our iniquities turned away these good things from us? |
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.