Jeremiah 4:18 Cross References - Geneva

¹⁸ Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.

⁵ That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment? ⁶ Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes, ⁷ Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee? ⁸ He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night, ⁹ So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more. ¹⁰ His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance. ¹¹ His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust. ¹² When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue, ¹³ And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, ¹⁴ Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him. ¹⁵ He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie. ¹⁶ He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

¹⁷ Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.

³¹ Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

²² His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.

¹ Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.

¹⁷ Hast not thou procured this vnto thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

¹⁹ Thine owne wickednes shall correct thee, and thy turnings backe shall reprooue thee: know therefore and beholde, that it is an euil thing, and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, sayeth the Lord God of hostes.

¹⁹ And when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God doe these things vnto vs? then shalt thou answere them, Like as ye haue forsaken me and serued strange gods in your land, so shall ye serue strangers in a land that is not yours.

¹⁹ Heare, O earth, beholde, I will cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations: because they haue not taken heede vnto my woordes, nor to my Lawe, but cast it off.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah King of Iudah, and all Iudah put him to death? did he not feare ye Lord, and prayed before the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the plague, that he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great euill against our soules.