Jeremiah 5:24

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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.

23 But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart;
They have revolted and departed.

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.”

25 ^aYour iniquities have turned these things away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.

26 ‘For among My people are found wicked men;
They ^alie in wait as one who sets snares;
They set a trap;
They catch men.

27 As a cage is full of birds,
So their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Jeremiah 5:24

Giveth rain, both the former and the latter - See the note on Jeremiah 3:3.

The appointed weeks of the harvest - As the early rains fell in the northern parts of Judea about the end of September, in the civil year of the Hebrews, so the latter rains fell before harvest, in the months of March and April. The appointed weeks of the harvest were those which fell between the passover and pentecost. In the southern parts the harvest was earlier than in the northern. Dr. Blayney translates, "A sufficiency of the appointed things of harvest he secureth to us."

If the word weeks, be read with a sin instead of a shin , it will signify fullness or sufficiency; and thus the Septuagint and Vulgate have read it. I think the present reading is much to be preferred. God appoints a harvest time, and in his good providence he generally gives harvest weather.

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