Jeremiah 5:23

But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

In Context

22Have 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.

24And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

Isaiah 31:6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:28All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Hosea 4:8The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

Hebrews 3:12My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

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 →

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