Jeremiah 5:23
21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
- KJV
- But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- WEB
- “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
- ASV
- But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- DARBY
- But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.
- BLB
- And for this people there is a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away,
- ÅB
- Men dette folk har et trossig og gjenstridig hjerte; de har veket fra ham og er gått bort.
- OTB
- Men dette folket har et trassig og gjenstridig hjerte; de har vendt seg bort og gått sin vei.
- B1930
- Men dette folk har et trossig og gjenstridig hjerte; de har veket fra ham og er gått bort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 6:28
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Read in contextHebrews 3:12
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Read in contextPsalms 95:10
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Read in contextHosea 11:7
My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
Read in contextHosea 4:8
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
Read in contextIsaiah 31:6
Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:5
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
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