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21 ‘Hear this please, O foolish and senseless[a] people,
    who have eyes[b] but do not see,
    who have ears[c] but do not hear.’
22 Do you not revere me?” declares[d] Yahweh,
    “Do you not tremble before me?[e]
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
    as an everlasting limit,[f] and it cannot pass over it,
and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail,
    and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.
23 But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart,
    they have turned aside and have gone away.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:21 Literally “without heart”
  2. Jeremiah 5:21 Literally “eyes for them”
  3. Jeremiah 5:21 Literally “ears for them”
  4. Jeremiah 5:22 Literally “a declaration of”
  5. Jeremiah 5:22 Literally “from the face of me”
  6. Jeremiah 5:22 Literally “a limit of eternity”