Jeremiah 5:25

5:25 Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. ¹ 

Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’ ² 

Jeremiah 42:4

42:4 The prophet Jeremiah answered them, “Agreed! ³  I will indeed pray to the Lord your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the Lord replies in response to you. ⁴  I will not keep anything back from you.”

¹ tn Heb “have turned these things away.”

² tn Heb “have withheld the good from you.”

³ tn Heb “I have heard” = “I agree.” For this nuance of the verb see BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Qal.1.j and compare the usage in Gen 37:27 and Judg 11:17 listed there.

⁴ tn Heb “all the word which the Lord will answer you.