Jeremiah 5:22
Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:58'If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name — Jehovah thy God —
Job 26:10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
Job 38:10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
Psalms 33:7Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.
Psalms 99:1Jehovah hath reigned, peoples tremble, The Inhabitant of the cherubs, the earth shaketh.
Psalms 119:120Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!
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 →