Jeremiah 4:18

WEB

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.”

KJV

¹⁸Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

BSB

¹⁸“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

FBV

¹⁸You've brought this on yourself by your own attitudes and actions. This is your punishment, and it's so painful, it's like being stabbed in the heart!”

Extra References

Jeremiah 2:19

¹⁹“^[+] Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD ^[+] of Armies.

Psalms 107:17

¹⁷Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Proverbs 1:31

³¹Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Jeremiah 2:17

¹⁷“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, ^[+] when he led you by the way?

Isaiah 50:1

¹The LORD says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Jeremiah 6:19

¹⁹Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Job 20:5-16

⁵that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? ⁶Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, ⁷yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ ⁸He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. ⁹The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more. ¹⁰His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth. ¹¹His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust. ¹²“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, ¹³though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth, ¹⁴yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. ¹⁵He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

Jeremiah 5:19

¹⁹It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

Proverbs 5:22

²²The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Jeremiah 26:19

¹⁹Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear the LORD, and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”