Jeremiah 5:21

Listen to this, you people who are foolish and who do not have any sense: You have eyes, but it is as though you cannot see; you have ears, but it is as though you cannot hear.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

In Context

20Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim this to the people of Israel and Judah:

22Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it and flood the land. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:3You [SYN] saw all the plagues that Yahweh caused them to experience, and all the various miracles [DOU] that Yahweh performed.

Deuteronomy 32:6You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, ◄is this the way that you should repay Yahweh for all that he has done for you?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh for all that he has done for you.► [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.

Proverbs 17:16It is useless to allow foolish people [RHQ] to try to become wise by paying for it, because they do not have enough good sense to become wise.

Isaiah 27:11The Israeli people are like [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires under their cooking pots. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.

Jeremiah 4:22Yahweh says, “My people are very foolish! They do not have a relationship with me. They are like [MET] stupid children who do not understand anything. They very cleverly do what is wrong, but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Jeremiah 7:13And while you were continually doing those wicked things, I told you about it many times, but you refused to listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer me.

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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