Jeremiah 5:22

Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not be pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it,—When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond it,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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 over it?

In Context

21Hear this, I pray you ye people—foolish and without heart,—Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, and hear not!

23Yet, this people hath an obstinate and rebellious heart,—They have turned aside, and gone their way;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:58If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll,—to revere this glorious and reverend name, Yahweh thy God,

Job 26:10A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;

Job 38:10And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;

Psalms 33:7Who gathered as into a skin-bottle the waters of the sea, Delivering, into treasuries, the roaring deeps.

Psalms 99:1Yahweh, hath become king, Let the peoples, tremble, He is enthroned on the cherubim, Let the earth, shake.

Psalms 119:120My flesh, bristled up from dread of thee, and, of thy regulations, stand I in fear.

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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