Jeremiah 5:22
Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
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Deuteronomy 28:58If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
Job 26:10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
Job 38:10Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
Psalms 33:7He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.
Psalms 99:1The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.
Psalms 119:120My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
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 →