they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.
Jeremiah 4:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your ways and your doings have brought these things upon you. This is your calamity and doom; surely it is bitter, for surely it reaches your very heart! American Standard Version (1901) Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart. Common English Bible Your own conduct, your own deeds have done this to you. This is your payment and how bitter it is, piercing into the depths of your heart. Catholic Public Domain Version Your ways and your thoughts have brought these things upon you. This is your own wickedness. And it is bitter, because it has touched your heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart. |
they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them #– #they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.’
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did not the king fear the Lord and plead for the Lord’s favour, , and did not the Lord relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves! ’
When people ask, “For what offence has the Lord our God done all these things to us? ”, you will respond to them, “Just as you abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”
Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you. Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,
Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid my face from them.
But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.