²⁰ “Declare this to the descendants^[a] of Jacob,
    and proclaim it in Judah:
²¹ ‘Hear this, you foolish and stupid people:
    They have eyes, but don’t see;
        they have ears, but don’t hear.
²² ‘You don’t fear me, do you?’ declares the Lord.
    ‘You don’t tremble before me, do you?
I’m the one who put the sand as a boundary for the sea,
    a perpetual barrier that it cannot cross.^[b]
Though the waves toss, they cannot prevail against it,
    though they roar, they cannot cross it.’
²³ But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.
    They have turned aside and have gone away.
²⁴ They don’t say to themselves,
    ‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives rain in its season,
    both the autumn and the spring rain.
He sets aside for us the weeks appointed
    for the harvest.’
²⁵ Your iniquities have turned these things away,
    and your sins have held back from you what is good.