Jeremia 4:18

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Ja, ditt eget leverne och dina egna varningar vålla dig detta; det är din ondskas frukt att det bliver dig så bittert, och att plågan träffar dig ända in i hjärtat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy way: Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 5:19, Jeremiah 6:19, Jeremiah 26:19, Job 20:5-16, Psalms 107:17, Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 5:22, Isaiah 50:1

it reacheth: Jeremiah 4:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - we saw 2 Chronicles 12:5 - Ye have forsaken me 2 Chronicles 24:20 - because Job 4:8 - they that plow Jeremiah 14:16 - for Jeremiah 44:3 - of their Lamentations 5:16 - woe Ezekiel 24:14 - according to thy ways Ezekiel 39:24 - General Hosea 7:2 - their own Hosea 13:9 - thou Micah 1:5 - the transgression of Jacob Zephaniah 1:17 - because Acts 8:23 - the gall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee,.... The way in which they walked, which was an evil one; and the actions which they committed; their idolatries, backslidings, and rebellions, before spoken of in this and the preceding chapter, were the cause of this siege, and those calamities coming upon them; they had none to blame but themselves; it was their own sinful ways and works which brought this ruin and destruction on them:

this is thy wickedness; the fruit of thy wickedness; or, "this thy calamity"; that is, is owing to these things; so the word is rendered in Psalms 141:5:

because it is bitter; not sin, as in Jeremiah 2:19, but the punishment of it; the calamity before mentioned; which was hard and heavy, and grievous to be borne, and yet very just; it was by way of retaliation; "they had bitterly provoked the Lord", as the word may be rendered in the preceding verse; and now he sends them a bitter calamity, and a heavy judgment:

because it reacheth unto thine heart; into the midst of them, and utterly destroyed them. The two last clauses may be rendered, "though it is bitter, though it reacheth unto thine heart" d; though it is such a sore distress, and such an utter destruction, yet it was to be ascribed to nothing else but their own sins and transgressions.

d כי מר כי נגע "quamvis amarum sit, quamvis pertigerit", Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy wickedness - This siege is thy wickedness, i. e., in its results; or better, this is thy wretchedness, this army and thy approaching ruin is thy misery.

Because - “For.” To feel that one’s misery is the result of one’s own doings adds bitterness to the anguish, and makes it reach, penetrate to the heart.