Jeremiah 5:23

And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22Me 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.

24And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:18'When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious — he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them —

Psalms 95:10Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart — they! And they have not known My ways:'

Isaiah 31:6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.

Jeremiah 6:28All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously — brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

Hosea 4:8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

Hebrews 3:12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the 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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