Jeremiah 4:18

Translations

Modern

“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Traditional

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.

Literal

“Your way and your deeds have made these things for you. This is your evil—how bitter it is, how it reaches as far as your heart!”

Latin

Viæ tuæ et cogitationes tuæ fecerunt hæc tibi: ista malitia tua, quia amara, quia tetigit cor tuum.

Original

Hebrew

English

“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Notes

Jeremiah 4:17–18

Foreign armies had already surrounded the capital city. The attack was coming because the people rebelled against the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:3–18

These verses focus on the kingdom of Judah and its capital, Jerusalem, in God's courtroom. The Lord declared he would judge Jerusalem through the Babylonians.

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 2:19
Your 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.
Psalm 107:17
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Proverbs 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Jeremiah 6:19
Hear, 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.
Isaiah 50:1
This 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 5:22
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Job 20:5–16
…the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Jeremiah 5:19
And 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 26:19
Did 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!”

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Heart: The Unregenerate is Full of Iniquity Jeremiah: The Prophet: Over Jerusalem Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Blessing and Restoration Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Rebellion Against God: Punishment For Sin: Fruits of

Jeremiah 4:18

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