Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
Jeremiah 4:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to 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. |
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them--them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.
Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, the LORD of Armies.
Did Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah and all Yehudah put him to death? Didn't he fear the LORD, and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.