Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
Your iniquities
The Hebrew word for "iniquities" is "עֲוֹנֹתֵיכֶם" (avonotekhem), which refers to moral perversity or guilt. In the context of Jeremiah, this term underscores the deep-seated nature of the people's rebellion against God. Historically, the Israelites were repeatedly warned by prophets about their transgressions, which included idolatry and social injustice. This phrase serves as a reminder that sin is not merely an external act but a condition of the heart that separates humanity from God.

have diverted
The Hebrew root "הִטּוּ" (hittu) means to turn aside or deflect. This word choice illustrates the active role that iniquities play in altering the course of blessings intended for the people. It suggests a deviation from the path of righteousness, leading to a loss of divine favor. The imagery here is of a stream of blessings being redirected away from the people due to their own actions.

these from you
The phrase "these from you" refers to the blessings and prosperity that God intended for His people. In the historical context of Jeremiah, these blessings could include peace, security, and abundance in the land. The use of "these" emphasizes the tangible and specific nature of what is being lost due to sin. It serves as a poignant reminder of the cost of disobedience.

your sins
The Hebrew word "חַטֹּאותֵיכֶם" (chatoteikhem) is used here, which refers to offenses or failures to meet God's standards. In the biblical narrative, sin is often depicted as missing the mark, akin to an archer failing to hit the target. This phrase highlights the personal responsibility of the people in their estrangement from God. It is a call to self-examination and repentance.

have deprived you
The verb "מָנְעוּ" (manu) means to withhold or deny. This word conveys the idea of being cut off from something that is rightfully due. In the context of Jeremiah, it underscores the consequences of sin, which is the withholding of God's blessings. It is a sobering reminder that sin not only affects one's relationship with God but also the material and spiritual well-being of the community.

of My bounty
The term "טוּבִי" (tubi) refers to goodness, prosperity, or abundance. This phrase encapsulates the fullness of God's provision and care for His people. In the historical and scriptural context, God's bounty is often associated with the Promised Land, a place flowing with milk and honey. The loss of this bounty due to sin serves as a powerful illustration of the spiritual and physical impoverishment that results from turning away from God. It is an invitation to return to Him and experience the fullness of His blessings once more.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jeremiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his prophecies concerning the judgment and restoration of Israel. He ministered during the final years of the kingdom of Judah.

2. Judah
The southern kingdom of Israel, which was facing impending judgment due to its persistent sin and rebellion against God.

3. God's Bounty
Refers to the blessings and provisions that God intended for His people, which were withheld due to their iniquities.
Teaching Points
The Consequence of Sin
Sin has tangible consequences, not only spiritually but also in the physical and material aspects of life. It diverts and deprives us of the good things God desires to give us.

God's Desire to Bless
Despite the consequences of sin, God's heart is to bless His people. His withholding of blessings is a call to repentance and restoration.

Repentance and Restoration
The path to reclaiming God's bounty is through genuine repentance and turning away from sin. God is faithful to restore those who seek Him earnestly.

Self-Examination
Believers are encouraged to examine their lives for any iniquities that may be hindering their relationship with God and His blessings.

The Role of Obedience
Obedience to God's commands is crucial in maintaining a life that is open to His blessings and favor.
Bible Study Questions
1. What specific iniquities might be diverting God's blessings in your life, and how can you address them?

2. How does the principle of blessings and curses in Deuteronomy 28 relate to the message in Jeremiah 5:25?

3. In what ways can you actively pursue repentance and restoration in your relationship with God?

4. How does understanding the consequences of sin change your perspective on daily choices and actions?

5. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's bounty. How did obedience play a role in that experience, and how can you apply that lesson today?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Isaiah 59:2
This verse similarly speaks of how sin creates a separation between God and His people, preventing them from experiencing His blessings.

Deuteronomy 28
Outlines the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, illustrating the principle that sin leads to a loss of God's intended blessings.

Romans 6:23
Highlights the consequences of sin, emphasizing that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Adoration of God in NatureJ. Garbett, M. A.Jeremiah 5:20-25
God the Ruler of the WavesJohn Newton.Jeremiah 5:20-25
God's Barriers Against Man's SinJeremiah 5:20-25
God's Government of the Sea and Man's Revolting TendenciesHomilistJeremiah 5:20-25
God's Judgment of Self-WillJ. Parker, D. D.Jeremiah 5:20-25
IndifferenceJ. Burns, D. D.Jeremiah 5:20-25
Persuasives to the Fear of GodJeremiah 5:20-25
Sea and Soil; Divine ProvidenceC. Clarkson, B. A.Jeremiah 5:20-25
Solemn Reasons for Fearing the LordBp. Heber.Jeremiah 5:20-25
The Sand BarrierHomiletic MagazineJeremiah 5:20-25
People
Jacob, Jeremiah
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Deprived, Evil-doing, Iniquities, Kept, Sins, Withheld, Withholden
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Jeremiah 5:21-25

     8757   folly, effects of
     8761   fools, in teaching of Christ

Jeremiah 5:24-25

     8335   reverence, and blessing

Library
A Question for the Beginning
'What will ye do in the end?'--JER. v. 31. I find that I preached to the young from this text just thirty years since--nearly a generation ago. How few of my then congregation are here to-night! how changed they and I are! and how much nearer the close we have drifted! How many of the young men and women of that evening have gone to meet the end, and how many of them have wrecked their lives because they would not face and answer this question! Ah, dear young friends, if I could bring some of the
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Storming the Battlements
Jerusalem had sinned against God; she had rebelled against the most High, had set up for herself false gods, and bowed before them; and when God threatened her with chastisement, she built around herself strong battlements and bastions. She said "I am safe and secure. What though Jehovah hath gone away, I will trust in the gods of nations. Though the Temple is cast down, yet we will rely upon these bulwarks and strong fortifications that we have erected." "Ah!" says God, "Jerusalem, I will punish
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855

God's Barriers against Man's Sin
I am slowly rallying. My great struggle now is with weakness. I feel as if my frail bark had weathered a heavy storm which has made every timber creak. Do not attribute this illness to my having laboured too hard for my Master. For his dear sake, I would that I may yet be able to labour more. Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the ramp for the service of one's country, would excite astonishment in the church for the service of our God. And now, I entreat you for love's sake to continue in prayer
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

Tithing
"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it" (Mal. 3:10). Down deep in the heart of every Christian there is undoubtedly the conviction that he ought to tithe. There is an uneasy feeling that this is a duty which has been neglected, or, if you prefer it, a privilege that has not been
Arthur W. Pink—Tithing

How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished.
(Admonition 14.) Differently to be admonished are those who fear scourges, and on that account live innocently, and those who have grown so hard in wickedness as not to be corrected even by scourges. For those who fear scourges are to be told by no means to desire temporal goods as being of great account, seeing that bad men also have them, and by no means to shun present evils as intolerable, seeing they are not ignorant how for the most part good men also are touched by them. They are to be admonished
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

The Purpose in the Coming of Jesus.
God Spelling Himself out in Jesus: change in the original language--bother in spelling Jesus out--sticklers for the old forms--Jesus' new spelling of old words. Jesus is God following us up: God heart-broken--man's native air--bad choice affected man's will--the wrong lane--God following us up. The Early Eden Picture, Genesis 1:26-31. 2:7-25: unfallen man--like God--the breath of God in man--a spirit, infinite, eternal--love--holy--wise--sovereign over creation, Psalm 8:5-8--in his own will--summary--God's
S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks about Jesus

Purposes of God.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What I understand by the purposes of God. Purposes, in this discussion, I shall use as synonymous with design, intention. The purposes of God must be ultimate and proximate. That is, God has and must have an ultimate end. He must purpose to accomplish something by his works and providence, which he regards as a good in itself, or as valuable to himself, and to being in general. This I call his ultimate end. That God has such an end or purpose,
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology

"And Hereby we do Know that we Know Him, if we Keep his Commandments. "
1 John ii. 3.--"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments." This age pretends to much knowledge beyond former ages, knowledge, I say, not only in other natural arts and sciences, but especially in religion. Whether there be any great advancement in other knowledge, and improvement of that which was, to a further extent and clearness, I cannot judge, but I believe there is not much of it in this nation, nor do we so much pretend to it. But, we talk of the enlargements of
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
THE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8

"If So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is None of His. "
Rom. viii. 9.--"If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?" 2 Chron. vi. 18. It was the wonder of one of the wisest of men, and indeed, considering his infinite highness above the height of heavens, his immense and incomprehensible greatness, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and then the baseness, emptiness, and worthlessness of man, it may be a wonder to the
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
To declare emphatically that the people of God are a covenant people, various signs were in sovereignty vouchsafed. The lights in the firmament of heaven were appointed to be for signs, affording direction to the mariner, the husbandman, and others. Miracles wrought on memorable occasions, were constituted signs or tokens of God's universal government. The gracious grant of covenant signs was made in order to proclaim the truth of the existence of God's covenant with his people, to urge the performance
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Acceptable Sacrifice;
OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART: SHOWING THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND PROPER EFFECTS OF A CONTRITE SPIRIT. BEING THE LAST WORKS OF THAT EMINENT PREACHER AND FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, MR. JOHN BUNYAN, OF BEDFORD. WITH A PREFACE PREFIXED THEREUNTO BY AN EMINENT MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN LONDON. London: Sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgates, 1692. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The very excellent preface to this treatise, written by George Cokayn, will inform the reader of
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Of the Nature of Regeneration, and Particularly of the Change it Produces in Men's Apprehensions.
2 COR. v. 17. 2 COR. v. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. THE knowledge of our true state in religion, is at once a matter of so great importance, and so great difficulty that, in order to obtain it, it is necessary we should have line upon line and precept upon precept. The plain discourse, which you before heard, was intended to lead you into it; and I question not but I then said enough to convince many, that they were
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration

Jeremiah
The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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