Bible Strands
Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Judah immediately after noting their failure to acknowledge Him as the faithful source of seasonal rains and appointed harvests.
The words — The text highlights עֲוֹנוֹתֵיכֶם (a.vo.no.tei./Khem) as your iniquities and מָנְעוּ (ma.ne.'U) as they have withheld. These terms frame moral failure as an active mechanism that blocks divine provision.
The thread — This causal link between sin and lost blessing runs through Isaiah 59:2, where iniquities build barriers between God and His people, and Psalms 107:34 and 107:17, where wickedness turns fertile land barren and brings affliction.
Why it lands — It demands readers stop treating spiritual decline and material lack as unrelated, and recognize that personal iniquity directly obstructs access to God's favor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Psalms 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Psalms 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Jeremiah 2:17 Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Lamentations 3:39 Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- Lamentations 4:22 O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.