Jeremiah 5:22 - Exposition

Fear ye not me ? The Hebrew places "me" emphatically at the beginning of the sentence. By a perpetual decree . This is one of the evidences, few but sufficient, of the recognition of natural laws by the Biblical writers; of laws, however, which are but the description of the Divine mode of working, "covenants" ( Jeremiah 33:20 ; comp. Genesis 9:18 ) made for man's good, but capable of being annulled ( Isaiah 54:10 ). Comp. Proverbs 8:29 ; Job 38:8-12 .