Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 5:21

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 20, 21.) Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it heard in Judah, saying: Hear, foolish people, who have no understanding: who have eyes but do not see, and ears but do not hear. In many ways they sin, turning away from salvation, and he calls the people foolish, who have abandoned the author of wisdom,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

21Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

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19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

20Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Judah.

— Jeremiah 5:21 —

22will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

23But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:

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