Jeremiah 5:24
And they have not said in their heart, || Now let us fear our God YHWH, who is giving rain, || The autumn rain and the spring rain, in its season, || He keeps the appointed weeks of harvest for us.
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In Context
23And this people has an apostatizing and rebelling heart, || They have turned aside, and they go on.
25Your iniquities have turned these away, || And your sins have kept the good from you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13And it has been, if you listen diligently to My commands which I am commanding you today, to love your God YHWH, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 28:12YHWH opens his good treasure to you—the heavens—to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand, and you have lent to many nations, and you do not borrow.
Job 5:10Who is giving rain on the face of the land, || And is sending waters on the out-places.
Job 36:27When He diminishes droppings of the waters, || They refine rain according to its vapor,
Psalms 147:8Who is covering the heavens with clouds, || Who is preparing rain for the earth, || Who is causing grass to spring up [on] mountains,
Jeremiah 3:3And showers are withheld, and there has been no spring rain. You have the forehead of a whorish woman, || You have refused to be ashamed.
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 →