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
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 →