A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 5:25
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Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
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The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 5:23
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Jeremiah 5:24
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.
- Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
- Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.