World English Bible
Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 4
Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, 'Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says Yahweh.
Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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