Jeremiah 5:23

23 But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone [away].

Jeremiah 5:23 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart
They are not so obedient as the sea and its waves; nor so firm and stable as the sand that is set for the bound of it. This is a reproof and an aggravation of the revoltings and rebellions of this people: they are revolted and gone;
they had departed from the ways of the Lord, and were gone back from his worship, as the Targum; and were gone into evil ways, and to a false worship; they not only had revolted, but they went on, they continued therein, and went further and further, off from God and his worship.

Jeremiah 5:23 In-Context

21 'Hear this please, [O] foolish and {senseless} people, {who have eyes} but do not see, {who have ears} but do not hear.'

22 Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, 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].

24 And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the [one who] gives [the] autumn rain and [the] spring rain in its season, {the set times of the harvest} he keeps for us.'

25 Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.