Jeremiah 4:18

New Living Translation

“Your own actions have brought this upon you. This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”

Cross References

Psalm 107:17

Some were fools; they rebelled and suffered for their sins.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.

Proverbs 5:22

An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: “Was your mother sent away because I divorced her? Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? No, you were sold because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.

Jeremiah 14:16

As for the people to whom they prophesy—their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and war. There will be no one left to bury them. Husbands, wives, sons, and daughters—all will be gone. For I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

Jeremiah 2:17

And you have brought this upon yourselves by rebelling against the Lord your God, even though he was leading you on the way!

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

Jeremiah 26:19

But did King Hezekiah and the people kill him for saying this? No, they turned from their sins and worshiped the Lord. They begged him for mercy. Then the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had pronounced against them. So we are about to do ourselves great harm.”

Jeremiah 5:19

“And when your people ask, ‘Why did the Lord our God do all this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’

Jeremiah 5:25

Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.

Jeremiah 6:19

Listen, all the earth! I will bring disaster on my people. It is the fruit of their own schemes, because they refuse to listen to me. They have rejected my word.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.

Ezekiel 39:24

I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.

Hosea 7:2

Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all.