Jeremiah 5:24
And 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.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden what is good from you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 28:12The Lord will open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.
Job 5:10Who giveth rain upon the surface of the earth, and sendeth out waters over the face of the fields;
Job 36:27For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist:
Psalms 147:8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who causeth grass to grow upon the mountains;
Jeremiah 3:3And [though] the early showers were withholden, and the latter rain came not: yet hadst thou a forehead of an incestuous wife, thou refusedst to feel shame.
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 →