Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
Why should 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. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.
The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer send you into captivity. He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins!
“Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart.”
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name’s sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.