Jeremiah 5:21-23
New English Translation
21 Tell them: ‘Hear this,
you foolish people who have no understanding,
who have eyes but do not discern,
who have ears but do not perceive:[a]
22 ‘You should fear me!’ says the Lord.
‘You should tremble in awe before me![b]
I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,
a permanent barrier that it can never cross.
Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.
They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.’[c]
23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.
They have turned aside and gone their own way.[d]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:21 tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see; they have ears but they do not hear.”
- Jeremiah 5:22 tn Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation.
- Jeremiah 5:22 tn Heb “it.” The referent is made explicit to avoid any possible confusion.
- Jeremiah 5:23 tn The words, “their own way” are not in the text but are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
Jeremiah 5:21-23
King James Version
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?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
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