Jeremiah 4:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!””
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““Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This <FI>is<Fi> thy vexation, for <FI>it is<Fi> bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 4:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- Isaiah 50:1This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 5:19And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
- Jeremiah 6:19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
- Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
- Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).