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What Turned It All Away — Fronted Guilt and the Syntax of Withheld Goodness
עֲוֹנֹותֵיכֶ֖ם הִטּוּ־אֵ֑לֶּה וְחַטֹּ֣אותֵיכֶ֔ם מָנְע֥וּ הַטֹּ֖וב מִכֶּֽם׃
When Sin Becomes Subject
Jeremiah 5:25 offers a stunning reversal: it is not divine reluctance, political failure, or cosmic delay that withholds good from Israel — it is their own sin. The verse speaks with syntactic clarity and poetic symmetry. Two lines, two clauses, two fronted possessive nouns, two perfect verbs. This is the grammar of divine cause and effect: guilt turned the blessings, and sins blocked the good. No room remains for deflection. Syntax pins the blame squarely on the people — not with fury, but with precision.… Learn Hebrew
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