Jeremiah 5:20-25

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁰ Declare this to the house of Jacob!
Proclaim it in Judah!
²¹ Hear this, you foolish, senseless people!
You have eyes but you cannot see.
You have ears but you cannot hear.
²² Do you not fear me? declares the Lord.
Do you not tremble before me?
I made sand as the boundary for the sea,
a permanent barrier that it cannot cross.
The waves toss back and forth,
but they cannot get past it.
The towering waves crash,
but they cannot pass over it.
²³ But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart.
They have turned aside and wandered away.
²⁴ They do not say to themselves,
“We should fear the Lord our God,
who sends autumn rains and spring rains at the right time,
who reserves for us enough weeks for the harvest.”
²⁵ But your guilty actions have kept these things at a distance.
Your sins have kept these good things away from you.