Jeremiah 5:20-25

English Standard Version

²⁰ Declare this in the house of Jacob;
    proclaim it in Judah:
²¹ “Hear this, ^(A)O foolish and senseless people,
    ^(B)who have eyes, but see not,
    who have ears, but hear not.
^22 (C)Do you not fear me? declares the Lord.
    Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand ^(D)as the boundary for the sea,
    a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
    though ^(E)they roar, they cannot pass over it.
^23 (F)But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
    they have turned aside and gone away.
²⁴ They do not say in their hearts,
    ‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
^(G)who gives the rain in its season,
    the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
    ^(H)the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
^25 (I)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.