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Jeremiah 5:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: "
Jeremiah 5:21
Verse in Context
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19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
22 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.’
23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
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Jeremiah 5:1
"“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her."
Jeremiah 5:2
"Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”"
Jeremiah 5:3
"O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return."
Jeremiah 5:4
"Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God."
Jeremiah 5:5
"I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds."
Jeremiah 5:6
"Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased."
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