The sea has a boundary

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

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, he who set the sand as a boundary for the sea, an everlasting decree that it cannot cross? Though its waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot cross it.

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

24They did not say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain in its season, both the early rain and the latter rain, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

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