The sea has a boundary

20Declare this among the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah:

21Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

22Do you not fear me? declares Yahweh. Do you not tremble before me? I set the sand as a boundary for the sea; by my everlasting decree, the sea cannot cross it. Though its waves surge, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot cross it.

23But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

24They have not said in their hearts, “Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain in its season, both the autumn rain and the spring rain, and safeguards the appointed weeks of harvest for us.”

25Your iniquities have turned these blessings away, and your sins have withheld good things from you.