en_tn_condensed/jer/05/22.md

Do you not fear me ... face?

"It is foolish that you do not fear me ... face!"

or tremble before my face

"or shake with fear because of me"

I have placed a border of sand against the sea

"I placed the sand as the border for the sea"

an ongoing decree that it does not violate

"an everlasting limit that it cannot cross". God speaks of the ocean not going past the border of sand as if the border were a law, and as if the ocean were a person who obeys the law.

rises and falls

"moves back and forth"

it does not violate it

"it does not succeed in going past the border"