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

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

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Rather, your iniquities have been barriers
    between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
    so that he does not hear.(A)

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

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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 sick[a] through their sinful ways
    and because of their iniquities endured affliction;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 107.17 Cn: Heb fools

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

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39 Why should any who draw breath complain
    about the punishment of their sins?(A)

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

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

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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 Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    while he led you in the way?(A)
18 What then do you gain by going to Egypt,
    to drink the waters of the Nile?
Or what do you gain by going to Assyria,
    to drink the waters of the Euphrates?(B)
19 Your wickedness will punish you,
    and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
            says the Lord God of hosts.(C)

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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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Footnotes

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

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

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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 The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.(A) 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky 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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