Jeremiah 5:23

But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

24And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;

Psalms 95:10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

Isaiah 31:6Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;

Jeremiah 6:28They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Hosea 4:8They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.

Hebrews 3:12See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in 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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