Jeremiah 5:21
eyes . . . ears, and—Translate, "and yet" (compare Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 6:9). Having powers of perception, they did not use them: still they were responsible for the exercise of them.
19 And it will be when you say, a‘Why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have bforsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so cyou shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.’
21 ‘Hear this now, O afoolish people,
Without1 understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
Without1 understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
22 aDo you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
‘Will you not tremble at My presence,
Who have placed the sand as the bbound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it?
And though its waves toss to and fro,
Yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
‘Will you not tremble at My presence,
Who have placed the sand as the bbound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it?
And though its waves toss to and fro,
Yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
24 They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
aWho gives rain, both the bformer and the latter, in its season.
cHe reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
aWho gives rain, both the bformer and the latter, in its season.
cHe reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 6:10
Isaiah 27:11
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