Jeremiah 5:24
You didn't think to say, “We should appreciate the Lord our God, who sends the autumn and spring rains at the right time, who makes sure we can have a harvest every year.”
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23But you people have a stubborn and rebellious attitude. You have left me and gone your own way.
25Your wrong actions have taken these benefits from you; your sins have deprived you of my blessings.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13So if you pay careful attention to keep the commandments that I'm giving to you today, if you love the Lord your God and worship him with all your mind and with all your being,
Deuteronomy 28:12The Lord will provide rain for your land at the right time from his heavenly storehouse to bless all your work growing crops. You will lend money to many nations but you won't need to borrow from any of them.
Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
Job 36:27He draws up the water and distils it into the dew and the rain.
Psalms 147:8He covers the sky with clouds to bring rain to the earth, and makes the grass grow on the hills.
Jeremiah 3:3That's why no showers have been sent, and no spring rains have fallen. But you just stare back shamelessly like a prostitute; you refuse to accept you've done anything wrong.
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 →