The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 5:13 in context
Jeremiah 5:10–16
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“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD.
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They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.
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The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
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Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
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Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
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Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
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