Jeremiah 4:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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  • Jer 2:19 : 19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 107:17 : 17 Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
  • Jer 2:17 : 17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
  • Jer 5:19 : 19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
  • Jer 6:19 : 19 Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
  • Jer 26:19 : 19 Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? 6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him. 10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. 11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. 12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; 13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; 14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

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    14Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

    15Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

    20For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

  • Jer 13:21-22
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    21What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

    22And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

  • Jer 4:17
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    17Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 40:3
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    3*** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Ezek 16:58
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    58The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.

  • Jer 30:12
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    12For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Nah 3:19
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    19Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

  • Mic 6:13
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    13So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.

  • Ezek 16:43
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    43Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.

  • Ezek 16:30
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    30How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

  • Jer 25:7
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    7But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Jer 2:17
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    17Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

  • Lam 1:20
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    20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Ezek 16:23
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    23And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,

  • Jer 4:19
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    19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

  • Jer 13:25
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    25This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

  • Ezek 22:4
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    4You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Job 36:17
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    17...

  • Jer 44:22-23
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    22And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

    23Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

  • Ezek 36:31
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    31And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

  • Mic 1:9
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    9For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  • Isa 1:5
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    5Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

  • Hab 2:10
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    10You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • Jer 22:21-22
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    21My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

    22All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
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    28Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Jer 15:13
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    13I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.

  • Jer 4:14
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    14O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Jer 16:10
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    10And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Jer 2:29
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    29Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 6:19
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    19Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

  • Job 4:5
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    5But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.