Yeremia 5:22

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Masakan kamu tidak takut kepada-Ku, demikianlah firman TUHAN, kamu tidak gemetar terhadap Aku? Bukankah Aku yang membuat pantai pasir sebagai perbatasan bagi laut, sebagai perhinggaan tetap yang tidak dapat dilampauinya? Biarpun ia bergelora, ia tidak sanggup, biarpun gelombang-gelombangnya ribut, mereka tidak dapat melampauinya!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Masakan kamu tidak takut kepada-Ku, demikianlah firman TUHAN, kamu tidak gemetar terhadap Aku? Bukankah Aku yang membuat pantai pasir sebagai perbatasan bagi laut, sebagai perhinggaan tetap yang tidak dapat dilampauinya? Biarpun ia bergelora, ia tidak sanggup, biarpun gelombang-gelombangnya ribut, mereka tidak dapat melampauinya!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Firman Tuhan: Tiadakah kamu hendak takut akan Daku; tiadakah kamu hendak gemetar di hadapan hadirat-Ku? yang sudah menjadikan pasir itu akan perhinggaan laut, akan tepinya yang kekal, yang tiada boleh dilaluinya; jikalau ombak-ombaknya bergelora sekalipun, maka kuasanya juga tiada sampai ke sana, jikalau ia bergemuruh sekalipun tiada juga ia akan meliputi dia.

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Preach this vnto the house of Iacob, and crye it out in Iuda, and say thus: ²¹ Heare this thou foolishe and vndiscreete people, ye haue eyes but ye see not, eares haue ye but ye heare not. ²² Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer. ²³ But this people hath a false and obstinate heart, they are departed and gone away fro me. ²⁴ They thinke not in their heartes, O let vs feare the Lord our God, who geueth vs raine early and late when nede is, whiche kepeth euer still the haruest for vs yerely.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fear ye not: Jeremiah 10:7, Deuteronomy 28:58, Psalms 119:120, Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5, Revelation 15:4

tremble: Psalms 99:1, Psalms 119:120, Isaiah 66:5, Daniel 6:26

placed: Job 26:10, Job 38:10, Job 38:11, Psalms 33:7, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 104:9, Proverbs 8:29, Isaiah 50:2, Amos 9:6, Nahum 1:4, Mark 4:39

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:9 - General Genesis 7:11 - all Exodus 19:16 - all the people 1 Kings 13:28 - the lion had 1 Chronicles 16:25 - he also 1 Chronicles 21:30 - he was afraid Job 13:11 - Shall Job 37:1 - General Job 38:8 - who Psalms 4:4 - Stand Psalms 24:2 - and Psalms 46:3 - the waters Psalms 95:5 - The sea is his Psalms 96:4 - he is Psalms 104:32 - looketh Psalms 114:7 - Tremble Psalms 124:5 - the proud Isaiah 27:11 - for it is Isaiah 64:2 - that the nations Jeremiah 2:19 - and that my Jeremiah 5:24 - Let us now Jeremiah 31:35 - when Hosea 11:10 - shall tremble Joel 2:1 - let Amos 3:6 - and the people Luke 8:24 - he arose Acts 16:29 - and came Acts 16:35 - General Revelation 12:8 - prevailed not Revelation 13:1 - upon

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
And all the dayes that Adam lyued were nine hundreth and thirtie yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:6
Seth lyued an hundreth & fyue yeres, and begat Enos.

Genesis 5:24
And Henoch walked with God: and he was no more seene, for God toke him away.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 24:40
And he answered me: the Lord before whom I walke, wyll sende his angell with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kinred, and of my fathers house.

Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,

Exodus 16:4
Then sayde the Lorde vnto Moyses: Beholde, I wyll rayne bread from heauen to you, and the people shall go out & gather a certaine rate euery day, that I may proue them whether they wyll walke in my lawe, or no.

Leviticus 26:12
I wyll walke among you, and wilbe your God, and ye shalbe my people.

Deuteronomy 5:33
But walke in all the wayes which the Lorde your God hath comaunded you, that ye may lyue, and that it may go well with you, and that ye may prolong your dayes in the lande which ye shall possesse.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fear ye not me? saith the Lord,.... They did not fear the Lord, and this is a reproof to them for the want of it, which is a reproof of their ignorance and folly; for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, Proverbs 9:10, and where that is there is true wisdom; but, where it is not, there is nothing but ignorance and stupidity:

will ye not tremble at my presence? or "face"; his wrath and anger, justly resenting their carriage to him. The Targum is,

"from before my Word;''

the essential Word, his Son: or, "will ye not be in pain?" as a woman in travail; as Kimchi observes the word b signifies:

which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it. This is a very wonderful thing in nature, that the earth and sea, being spherical, and making one terraqueous globe, and the waters of the sea being higher than the earth, should be so bounded and restrained, by the power and providence of God, as not to overflow the earth, and that by means of the sand, which is penetrable, flexible, and movable; and yet this is set as a bound, and by the decree of God remains firm and stable, and that for ever, so that the sea cannot bear it down, go through it, or over it:

and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it; even when the sea is the most tumultuous and raging. This is an instance of the mighty power of God, and carries in it an argument and reason why he should be feared; and yet such was the stupidity of this people, that though they saw this with their eyes, the sea and the tossings of it, and the sand set as a bound to it, and an effectual one, and heard the roarings and ragings of the waves of it in vain; yet they feared not the Lord that did all this; and so showed themselves more stupid and disobedient than the sea and its waves, which obeyed their Maker, though destitute of sense and reason; see Job 26:10.

b "Significantissima impimis vox est" תחילו, "quae significat ita angi ut parturiens", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its appointed place, not by barriers of iron but by a belt of sand. Modern science has shown that the resisting power of sand is enormous. A wave which would shatter rocks fails powerless upon sand.

Can they not prevail - The opposite of “thou couldest” Jeremiah 3:5. The sea, the mightiest of God’s works, cannot prevail, cannot break God’s laws, because He has not endowed it with free-will. Man, physically impotent, can prevail, because, being made in God’s image, he is free.

Jeremiah 5:23

The heart, or will of the Jews was first “revolting,” literally a will that “drew back” from God, because it disliked His service; and secondly it was “rebellious,” a will that actively resisted Him. Compare Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 21:20.

Jeremiah 5:24

As God’s Providence addresses itself chiefly to the thoughtful, Jeremiah says in their heart. By the intelligent study of God’s dealings men perceive that they are not merely acts of power but also of love.

The appointed weeks - literally, He guardeth, maintaineth, for us the weeks which are the statutes or settled laws “of the harvest.” These were the seven weeks from the Passover to Pentecost, and were as important for the ingathering of the crops as the rainy seasons for their nourishment.

Jeremiah 5:25

It was not that the rains did not fall, or that the harvest weeks were less bright; the good was there, but the wickedness of the community blocked up the channels, through which it shou d have reached the people. The lawlessness and injustice of the times kept the mass of the people in poverty.

Jeremiah 5:26

Rather, he spieth about like the crouching down of fowlers; they have set the fatal snare; “they catch men.”

Trap - literally, “The destroyer;” it was probably a gin, which strangled the birds caught in it.

Jeremiah 5:27

Deceit - The wealth gained by deceit and fraud.

Jeremiah 5:28

Fatness is admired in the East as a sign of wealth.

They shine - This word is used of the sleekness of the skin, soft and smooth as ivory.

They overpass the deeds of the wicked - literally, “They have overpassed words of wickedness,” i. e., they go to excess in wickedness.

Yet they prosper - Or, that they (the orphans) may prosper, enjoy their rights.

Jeremiah 5:30

Rather, A terrible “and horrible thing” has happened “in the land.”

Jeremiah 5:31

Bear rule by their means - Rather, “The priests” rule at their hands, i. e., govern according to their false prophecies, guidance, and directions.

My people love to have it so - False teaching lightens the yoke of God’s Law, and removes His fear from the conscience: and with this, man is ready to be content.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:22. Which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea — What can I not do, who confine the sea, that enormous mass of waters, and prevent it from overflowing the earth; not by immense mountains and rocks, but by the sand, no particle of which is in cohesion with another? The most tremendous waves cannot displace nor pass over this simple barrier.