King James Version
Jeremiah 5:23 in the King James Version says “But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.”
Jeremiah 5:23 · KJV
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: understanding: Heb. heart
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which 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?
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But this people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“and a rebellious”
H4784to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
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