Jeremiah 4:18

Easy To Read Version

“The way you lived and the things you did\par brought this trouble to you.\par It is your evil that made your life so hard.\par Your evil life brought the pain\par that hurts deep in your heart.”\par

Cross References

Psalm 107:17

Some people let their sins and guilt\par change them into foolish people.\par

Proverbs 1:31

You people lived the way you wanted to live. You followed your own advice. So now you must accept the result of your own actions!

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of an evil person will trap him. His sins will be like ropes holding him.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says,\par “\{People of Israel, you say that I divorced\par your mother, Jerusalem.\}\par But where is the legal paper\par that proves I divorced her?\par My children, did I owe money to someone?\par Did I sell you to pay a debt?\par No! You were sold\par because of the bad things you did.\par Your mother (Jerusalem) was sent away\par because of the bad things you did.\par

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people those prophets spoke to will be thrown into the streets. Those people will die from hunger and from an enemy’s sword. No person will be there to bury those people, or their wives or their sons or daughters. I will punish them.

Jeremiah 2:17

This trouble is your own fault!\par The Lord your God\par was leading you the right way, {\cf2\super [10]} \par but you turned away from him.\par

Jeremiah 2:19

You did bad things,\par and those bad things will only\par bring punishment to you.\par Trouble will come to you.\par And that trouble will teach you a lesson.\par Think about it!\par Then you will understand how bad it is\par to turn away from your God.\par It is wrong not to fear and respect me!”\par This message was from my Master,\par the Lord All-Powerful.\par

Jeremiah 26:19

“Hezekiah was the king of Judah. And Hezekiah didn’t kill Micah. None of the people of Judah killed Micah. You know that Hezekiah respected the Lord. He wanted to please the Lord. The Lord had said he would do bad things to Judah. But Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, and the Lord changed his mind. The Lord didn’t do those bad things. If we hurt Jeremiah, then we will bring many troubles on ourselves. And those troubles will be our own fault.”

Jeremiah 5:19

The people of Judah will ask you,\par ‘Jeremiah, why has the Lord our God\par done this bad thing to us?’\par Give them this answer:\par ‘You people of Judah have left the Lord,\par and you have served foreign idols\par in your own land.\par You did those things, so now\par you will serve foreigners in a land\par that doesn’t belong to you.’”\par

Jeremiah 5:25

People of Judah, you have done wrong.\par So the rains and the harvest have not come.\par Your sins have kept you from enjoying\par those good things from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear this, people of the earth.\par I am going to bring disaster\par to the people of Judah.\par Why? Because of all the bad things\par that those people planned.\par And because they ignored my messages.\par Those people refused to obey my law.”\par

Lamentations 3:15

The Lord gave me this poison (punishment)\par to drink.\par He filled me with this bitter drink.\par

Ezekiel 39:24

They sinned and made themselves filthy. So I punished them for the things they did. I turned away from them \{and refused to help them\}.”

Hosea 7:2

Those people don’t believe\par that I will remember their crimes.\par The bad things they did are all around.\par I can see their sins clearly.\par