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Jeremiah 4:18

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4:18“The way you have lived and the things you have done47

will bring this on you.

This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed.48

The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”49

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Footnotes

  1. 47 Heb “Your way and your deeds.”
  2. 48 Heb “How bitter!”
  3. 49 Heb “Indeed, it reaches to your heart.” The subject must be the pain alluded to in the last half of the preceding line; the verb is masculine, agreeing with the adjective translated “painful.” The only other possible antecedent “punishment” is feminine.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Your ways and your deeds

have brought this upon you.

This is your doom, and it is bitter;

it has reached your very heart.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Your own conduct and actions

have brought this on you.

This is your punishment.

How bitter it is!

How it pierces to the heart!”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Your way and your actions

have brought this on you.

This is your punishment. It is very bitter,

because it has reached your heart!

NLTNew Living Translation

“Your own actions have brought this upon you.

This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“You obtained this for yourself

because of your way and your deeds.

This is your doom, for it is bitter,

yes, it has reached up to your heart.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee;

This is thy wickedness, because it is bitter,

Because it reacheth unto thine heart.