Jeremiah 5 · Verse 23

Jeremiah 5:23

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 5:23, King James Version

Jeremiah 5:23 in other translations

BSBBut these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
WEB“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
ASVBut this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
YLTAnd this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
DARBYBut this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.
BBEBut the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
WebsterBut this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

What does Jeremiah 5:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. (Jr 6:28).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 They are revolted and gone - They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone entirely away from truth and righteousness.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 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…

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Jeremiah 5:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְלָעָ֤םve.la.'Amand to the peopleH5971
הַזֶּה֙ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088
הָיָ֔הha.Yahit belongsH1961
לֵ֖בleva heartH3820
סוֹרֵ֣רso.RerstubbornH5637
וּמוֹרֶ֑הu.mo.Rehand rebelliousH4784
סָ֖רוּSa.ruthey have turned asideH5493
וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ\׃vai.ye.Le.khuand they have gone awayH1980

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 5:23

  • Jeremiah 6:28

    They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18

    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

  • Hebrews 3:12

    Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

  • Psalms 95:10

    Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Hosea 11:7

    And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Hosea 4:8

    They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Isaiah 31:6

    Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Jeremiah 5:5

    I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

  • Isaiah 1:5

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • Jeremiah 17:9

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a revolting.
5; 6:28; 17:9; Ps 95:10; Isa 1:5; 31:6; Ho 4:8; 11:7; Heb 3:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 5:22

    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?

  • Jeremiah 5:23

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

  • Jeremiah 5:24

    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.

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Jeremiah 5:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero este pueblo tiene corazón falso y rebelde; tornáronse y fuéronse.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais ce peuple-ci a un cœur indocile et rebelle; ils se sont détournés, et s’en sont allés;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber dieses Volk hat ein störriges und widerspenstiges Herz; sie sind abgewichen und weggegangen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Populo autem huic factum est cor incredulum et exasperans: recesserunt, et abierunt.