Jeremiah 5:24
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
23“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
25“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, 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 to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapour,
Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you 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 →