Jeremiah 5:23
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New International Version (©2011)
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But my people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned away and abandoned me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and departed.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away.

NET Bible (©2006)
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But these people are stubborn and rebellious. They have turned aside and wandered away from me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone away.

American King James Version
But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

American Standard Version
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Darby Bible Translation
But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.

English Revised Version
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Webster's Bible Translation
But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

World English Bible
"But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

Young's Literal Translation
And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and were wholly gone into wickedness. Neither did they consider their interest. While the Lord, year after year, reserves to us the appointed weeks of harvest, men live on his bounty; yet they transgress against him. Sin deprives us of God's blessings; it makes the heaven as brass, and the earth as iron. Certainly the things of this world are not the best things; and we are not to think, that, because evil men prosper, God allows their practices. Though sentence against evil works is not executed speedily, it will be executed. Shall I not visit for these things? This speaks the certainty and the necessity of God's judgments. Let those who walk in bad ways consider that an end will come, and there will be bitterness in the latter end.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - A revolting and a rebellious heart. The heart is the center of the moral life virtually equivalent to "the will;" it. is "revolting" when it "turns back" (so literally here) from God's Law and service, and "rebellious" when it actively defies and opposes him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. (Jer 6:28).

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Judgment Proclaimed
…22Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you 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? 23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. …

Deuteronomy 21:18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,
Psalm 78:8 They would not be like their ancestors-- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
Jeremiah 4:17 They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me,'" declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!