Jeremiah 5:24
and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
23But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:
25Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13Now if ye will indeed hearken to all the commands which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 28:12May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt thou lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
Job 5:10Who gives rain upon the earth, 1 Sending water on the earth: 1
Job 36:27And the drops of rain are numbered by him, 1 And shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. 1
Psalms 147:8He sends his word to Jacob, 1 His ordinances and judgments to Israel. 1
Jeremiah 3:3And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.
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 →