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Jeremiah 5:23
23But this people have a stubborn and rebellious heart. They have turned aside and gone away.
Jeremiah 5:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- New International Version (NIV)But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed.
Context of Jeremiah 5:23
21‘Hear this you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear. 22Do you not fear Me?’ says Adonai. ‘Do you not tremble in My presence?’ For I made the sand a boundary of the sea, an everlasting decree that cannot be broken. Though the waves roll, they cannot prevail. Though they roar, they cannot cross it. But this people have a stubborn and rebellious heart. They have turned aside and gone away. 24They do not say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Adonai Eloheinu, who gives rain in its season —fall rain and spring rain— who reserves for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’ 25Your iniquities have turned these away, your sins have deprived you of bounty.
Read all of Jeremiah 5Jeremiah 5:23 word by word
וְלָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ הָיָ֔ה לֵ֖ב סוֹרֵ֣ר וּמוֹרֶ֑ה סָ֖רוּ וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:23
- Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the distinguished and speak to them. Surely they know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God. But they too had broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.
- Jeremiah 6:28They are all stubborn rebels spreading slander. They are bronze and iron, all of them are corrupt.
- Jeremiah 17:9“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
- Psalms 95:10For forty years I loathed that generation. So I said: ‘It is a people whose heart goes astray, who do not know My ways.’
- Isaiah 1:5Where will you be struck again, as you stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
- Isaiah 31:6Return to the One from whom rebellion is so deep, Bnei-Yisrael.
- Hosea 4:8They feed on the sin of My people and relish their iniquity.
- Hosea 11:7So My people are bent on turning from Me. Although they are being called upwards, none will rise up.
- Hebrews 3:12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23They are revolted and gone - They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone entirely away from truth and righteousness.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20-31Verses 20-31 Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root. Jeremiah 5:22 The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-31Verses 19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and were wholly gone into…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-25The people mistakenly believed they could manage without the Lord, who gave rain for their crops (Deuteronomy 11:14). This wrongdoing led them to miss out on wonderful blessings and good things (Jeremiah 3:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. (Jr 6:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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