Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
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.
a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Fools are afflicted because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities.
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.
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.
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee. This is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to thy heart.
The word of LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.