Jeremiah 4:18

Good News Translation

Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

Cross References

Psalm 107:17

Some were fools, suffering because of their sins and because of their evil;

Proverbs 1:31

So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them—including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness.”

Jeremiah 2:17

Israel, you brought this on yourself! You deserted me, the Lord your God, while I was leading you along the way.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 26:19

King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honored the Lord and tried to win his favor. And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves.” (

Jeremiah 5:19

When they ask why I did all these things, tell them, Jeremiah, that just as they turned away from me and served foreign gods in their own land, so they will serve strangers in a land that is not theirs.”

Jeremiah 5:25

Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

Jeremiah 6:19

Listen, earth! As punishment for all their schemes I am bringing ruin on these people, because they have rejected my teaching and have not obeyed my words.

Lamentations 3:15

Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

Ezekiel 39:24

I gave them what they deserved for their uncleanness and their wickedness, and I turned away from them.”

Hosea 7:2

It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”