Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 5:25
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 25) Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you. Therefore, if at any time the sea shall pass its bounds, and the rain shall be kept back, verily the hand of the Lord is not shortened, that it cannot do these things: but your sins, being present, have turned…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
25Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
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23But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:
24and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.
— Jeremiah 5:25 —
26For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
27As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich: