Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.