Jeremiah 5:23

Judgment

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 over it?

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

²⁴ Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

²⁵ Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

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
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
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Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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Psalms 95:10
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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Hosea 11:7
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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Isaiah 31:6
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
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Jeremiah 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
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