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Jeremiah 5:25

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned these away refers to the rain in v. Jeremiah 5:24 that had not come. The Israelites’ sin had led to a change in weather and a loss of crops, through God’s judgment. good. The blessings of v. Jeremiah 5:24 could have been theirs.

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See also Jeremiah 5:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 5:25. _YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE TURNED AWAY THESE_ THINGS] When these appointed weeks of harvest do not come, should we not examine and see whether this be not in God's judgments? Have not...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LET EVIL-DOERS FEAR YAHWEH. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea (_cf._ the rebuke of Job's presumption by the d...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata'_. App-44. GOOD. the good (singular)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary at beginning of section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _these things_ the blessings mentioned. For the thought cp. Amos 4:6 ff....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. _Social injustice_ (Jeremiah 5:25-29) TRANSLATION (25) Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withheld good from you. (26) For wicked men are found among My people. They...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. YOUR SINS HAVE WITHHOLDEN GOOD THINGS FROM YOU - national guilt had caused the suspension of thes...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THESE THINGS. — i.e., the rain and the harvest which, from the prophet’s point of view, had been withheld in consequence of the sins of the people....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֲוֹנֹותֵיכֶ֖ם הִטּוּ ־אֵ֑לֶּה וְ חַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔ם מָנְע֥וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Your (s) iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withheld good [things] from you. (s) If there is any stay, that we receive not God's blessings in abundance, we must consider t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Away. The rain comes unseasonably._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The complaint in those verses ends with the same solemn and just enquiry, as we had before. I have often thought, and I see no reason to alter the sentiment, that never was there a scripture more suit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Inasmuch as hypocrites, according to what has been said before, often reply to God, and bring this and that objection, the Prophet here checks what they might have alleged; for he says that God’s bene...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE TURNED AWAY THESE THINGS,.... Whereas of late years rain was withheld from them in common, and they had not the former and latter rain in its season, nor the appointed weeks of th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you. Ver. 25. _Your iniquities have turned._] See on Isaiah 59:2; Isaiah 1:2 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Your iniquities have turned away these things_ See note on Jeremiah 3:3. _For among my people are found wicked men_ I need not search for such among the heathen nations, for they are easily found amo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BLINDNESS OF HEART, INGRATITUDE, DECEIT, AND VIOLENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Your iniquities have turned away these things, the blessings of God's goodness, AND YOUR SINS HAVE WITHHOLDEN GOOD THINGS FROM YOU, acting as a barrier against the flow of God's gifts....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE TURNED AWAY THESE THINGS: q.d. Do not say your ground is parched up with drought, or your fruits are corrupted and rotted by too much or unseasonable rain; we have nothing now in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 5:25 iniquities H5771 away H5186 (H8689) sins H2403 withheld H4513 (H8804) good H2896...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH ASKS HIS PEOPLE WHY IN VIEW OF HIS CLEARLY REVEALED POWER THEY DO NOT FEAR HIM, AND CONCLUDES THAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE REVOLUTIONARIES AND REBELS, CAUGHT UP IN SIN (JEREMIAH 5:20). YHWH addres...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O foolish people, and without understanding._ GOD’S JUDGMENT OF SELF-WILL The text is part of a message which was to be declared in the house of Jacob, and published in Israel. It shows that three...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24; Isaiah 59:2; Jeremiah 2:17;...

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