²⁰ “Declare this in the house of Jacob
And cause it to be heard in Judah, saying,
²¹ ‘Now hear this, O people who are simpleminded fools and without a heart of wisdom,
Who have ^(A)eyes but do not see,
Who have ears but do not hear.
²² Do you not ^(B)fear Me?’ declares Yahweh.
‘Do you not tremble in My presence?
For I have ^(C)placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
A perpetual statute, so it cannot cross over it.
Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.
²³ But this people has a ^(D)stubborn and rebellious heart;
They have turned aside and gone away.
²⁴ They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear Yahweh our God,
Who ^(E)gives rain in its season,
Both ^(F)the ^[a]early rain and the ^[b]late rain,
Who keeps for us
The ^(G)appointed weeks of the harvest.”
²⁵ Your ^(H)iniquities have turned these away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.