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Jeremiah 5:25

The Scriptures 1998

‘Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you.

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Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their crookednesses, were afflicted.

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

But your crookednesses have separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

The word of יהוה that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the matter of droughts.

O יהוה, though our crookednesses witness against us, act, for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings have been many, we have sinned against You.

“Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed.

“Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your evil, because it is bitter, because it has reached into your heart.”

What? Should mankind complain, A living man, because of his sins?

Your crookedness has been completed, O daughter of Tsiyon. He no longer prolongs your exile. He shall punish your crookedness, O daughter of Eḏ