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Jeremiah 4:18

“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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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
דַּרְכֵּךְ֙dar.keKhconduct yourH1870 →
וּמַ֣עֲלָלַ֔יִךְu.Ma.'a.la.La.yikhand deeds yourH4611 →
עָשׂ֥וֹa.Sothey have brought aboutH6213 →
אֵ֖לֶּה'E.lehthese [things]H428 →
לָ֑ךְLakhto <the> you
זֹ֤אתzotthisH2063 →
רָעָתֵךְ֙ra.'a.teKh[is] wickedness yourH7451 →
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
מָ֔רMarit is bitterH4843 →
כִּ֥יkiforH3588 →
נָגַ֖עna.Ga'it has reachedH5060 →
עַד־'ad-toH5704 →
לִבֵּֽךְ׃ סli.Bekhheart yourH3820 →

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Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.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.Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.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.Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?Ezekiel 39:24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.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.Micah 1:5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?Hosea 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.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!”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.’”Job 20:5–16the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!2 Chronicles 12:5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”2 Chronicles 24:20Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”Acts 8:23For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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