Jeremiah 5:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֲוֺנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם הִטּוּ־אֵ֑לֶּה וְחַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔ם מָנְע֥וּ הַטּ֖וֹב מִכֶּֽם׃

Transliteration

Your 'ăwōnôtêkem hiṭṭû-these, and your ḥaṭṭō'wtêkem mānə'û the haṭṭôb from you.

Grammar Details

*'ăwōnôtêkem*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your iniquities
*hiṭṭû*: perfect, 3rd plural, hiphil - they turned aside
*'ēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
*wə*: conjunction - and
*ḥaṭṭō'wtêkem*: noun, feminine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your sins
*mānə'û*: perfect, 3rd plural - they withheld
*ha*: article - the
*ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
*mikkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - from you

Word Meanings

*'ăwōnôtêkem*: your iniquities/perversities/guilt
*hiṭṭû*: turned aside/diverted/prevented
*ḥaṭṭō'wtêkem*: your sins/offenses
*mānə'û*: withheld/kept back/hindered
*haṭṭôb*: the good/the benefit/good things

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Referenced Verses

Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Lam 3:39 : 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lam 4:22 : 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins.
Deut 28:23-24 : 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Ps 107:17 : 17 Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Isa 59:2 : 2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Jer 2:17-19 : 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

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