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Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah addresses Judah during a period of covenant rebellion, placing this statement immediately after the description of their stubborn hearts (Jeremiah 5:23) and before the declaration that their iniquities have diverted them from God's bounty (Jeremiah 5:25).
The words — נִירָא (ni-ra') translates literally to "let us fear," and יְהוָה (Yahweh) identifies the covenant name of God. The text records the people's failure to verbally acknowledge this reverence toward Him.
The thread — The link between seasonal rains and divine faithfulness appears in Genesis 8:22, Psalms 147:8, and Joel 2:23. These passages similarly associate agricultural cycles with God's consistent governance.
Why it lands — The text states that the people lack the internal acknowledgment of God's seasonal provision, which directly precedes the declaration that their sins have blocked their access to His bounty. It asks the reader to recognize that rejecting reverence for the Creator of natural order severs the relationship with His provision.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Psalms 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Joel 2:23 Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
- Matthew 5:45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- Job 36:27 For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,