Some became fools because of their rebellious ways, and were afflicted due to their iniquities.
Jeremiah 4:18 - Tree of Life Version Your conduct and your deeds have brought these things on you. This is your calamity! How bitter it is! How it smites 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. |
Some became fools because of their rebellious ways, and were afflicted due to their iniquities.
so they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.
The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Also the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them, their wives, their sons or their daughters. For I will pour their disaster on them.”
Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
“Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Adonai and plead for the favor of Adonai, and then Adonai relented of the calamity that He had pronounced against them? So we may be committing great evil against our own souls.”
So it will come to pass that when you ask, ‘Why has Adonai Eloheinu done all these things to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
Your iniquities have turned these away, your sins have deprived you of bounty.
Hear, O earth! See, I will bring disaster on this people —fruit of their schemes— for they did not listen to My words and rejected My Torah.
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions. I hid My face from them.”
But they never admit in their heart that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them. They are right before My face.