25 (A)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.

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25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away;
    your sins have deprived you of good.(A)

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(A)but your iniquities have made a separation
    between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
    so that he does not hear.

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But your iniquities have separated(A)
    you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.(B)

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34 (A)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
    because of the evil of its inhabitants.

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34 and fruitful land into a salt waste,(A)
    because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

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17 Some were (A)fools through their sinful ways,
    and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

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17 Some became fools(A) through their rebellious ways(B)
    and suffered affliction(C) because of their iniquities.

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39 (A)Why should a living man complain,
    a man, about the punishment of his sins?

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39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?(A)

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(A)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (B)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.

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Therefore the showers have been withheld,(A)
    and no spring rains(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.(D)

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?
18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (D)the Nile?
(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (F)the Euphrates?[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (I)bitter
    for (J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

17 Have you not brought this on yourselves(A)
    by forsaking(B) the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?
18 Now why go to Egypt(C)
    to drink water from the Nile[a]?(D)
And why go to Assyria(E)
    to drink water from the Euphrates?(F)
19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(G) will rebuke(H) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(I) it is for you
when you forsake(J) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(K) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile

22 (A)The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;
    he will keep you in exile no longer;[a]
but (B)your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;
    he will uncover your sins.

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  1. Lamentations 4:22 Or he will not exile you again

22 Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;(A)
    he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
    and expose your wickedness.(B)

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23 And (A)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

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23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(A) 24 The Lord will turn the rain(B) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

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