Jeremiah 5:21
'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:
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20"Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
Deuteronomy 32:6Do you thus requite the Lord,foolish people and unwise?Isn't he your father who has bought you?He has made you, and established you.
Proverbs 17:16Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,seeing he has no understanding?
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Jeremiah 4:22"For my people are foolish, they do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 7:13Now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear; and I called you, but you did not answer:
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 →