Jeremiah 5:22

Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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 over it?

In Context

21Do now hear this, O sottish people, who have no heart; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not;

23But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart: they have departed [from the right] and have gone their way.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:58If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book; to fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God:

Job 26:10A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.

Job 38:10And when I decreed for it my law, and set [for it] bars and doors,

Psalms 33:7He gathereth together like heaps the waters of the sea: he layeth up in store-houses the depths [of the sea].

Psalms 99:1The Lord reigneth; people tremble: he sitteth enthroned over the cherubim; the earth is moved.

Psalms 119:120My flesh trembleth shudderingly from dread of thee, and of thy decrees am I afraid.

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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