Jer 5:22 | NETfull | STEP | “You should fear me!” says the Lord . “You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

Jeremiah 5:22

22 “You should fear me!” says the Lord.
“You should tremble in awe before me! ^{▼▼ Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation.}
I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,
a permanent barrier that it can never cross.
Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.
They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.” ^{▼▼ Heb “it.” The referent is made explicit to avoid any possible confusion.}