25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? …
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-31)Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer. 5:25), the former and the latter rain , which they used to have in due season (Jer. 5:24), but which had of late been withheld (Jer. 3:3), by reason of which the appointed weeks of harvest had sometimes disappointed them. “It is your sin that has withholden good from you , when God was…
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