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Jeremiah 5:23

What does Jeremiah 5:23 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 5:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.

Context

v.22Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

v.23This passage

v.24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 4:8

    They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Psalms 95:10

    Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

  • Isaiah 31:6

    Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 5:5

    I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18

    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

  • Hebrews 3:12

    Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

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