Jeremiah 5:23

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

In Context

22Even 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,

24Neither have they said in their heart,—Let us we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season,—The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:18When a man hath a son, rebellious and insulting, who will not hearken to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother,—though they chastise him, yet will not hearken unto them,

Psalms 95:10Forty years, loathed I that generation, So I said—A people going astray in heart, they are, Even they, have not known my ways!

Isaiah 31:6Return ye unto him against whom the sons of Israel have deeply revolted,

Jeremiah 6:28They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander-walkers [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!

Hosea 4:8The sin of my people, they do eat,—and. unto their iniquity, lift they up every man his desire.

Hebrews 3:12Be taking heed, brethren, lest at any time, there shall be in any one of you, a wicked heart of unbelief, in revolting from a Living God.

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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