Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.
Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.
Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion; he will not prolong your exile. But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom, and expose your wickedness.
“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”
This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Although our sins testify against us, do something, Lord, for the sake of your name. For we have often rebelled; we have sinned against you.