They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 5:24 in context
Jeremiah 5:21–27
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‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
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Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
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“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
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They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
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“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
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For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
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