Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;
Jeremiah 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very 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. |
Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother's bill of divorce with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword. There shall be no one to bury them—themselves, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, while he led you in the way?
Your wickedness will punish you, and your apostasies will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”
And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”
Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have deprived you of good.
Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
But they do not consider that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them, they are before my face.