King James Version
Jeremiah 5:25 in the King James Version says “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.”
Jeremiah 5:25 · KJV
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. they lay: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. cage: or, coop
KJV Study — Public Domain
“have turned away”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“these things and your sins”
H2403an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
“good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
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