Jeremiah

²¹‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear: ²²Don’t you fear me?’ says the Lord ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’ ²³“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. ²⁴They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ ²⁵“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. ²⁶For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. ²⁷As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.