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Jeremiah 5:23

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 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.

24And they have not said in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, the early and the latter rain, in its season: the appointed weeks of the harvest doth he ever preserve for us.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and they chastise him, and he will not hearken unto them:

Psalms 95:10Forty years long did I feel loathing on that generation, and I said, It is a people of an erring heart; and they truly acknowledged not my ways:

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

Jeremiah 6:28They all are grievous revolters, going about as talebearers, copper and iron: they all are corrupt.

Hosea 4:8The sin-offering of my people do they eat, and for their iniquity doth the soul of each one of them long.

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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