Jeremiah 5:24
Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 28:12LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow.
Job 5:10who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,
Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
Psalms 147:8who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:21-25
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass… Read the whole commentary →