◄ Jeremiah 5:13 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
The prophets are nothing but wind, for the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!

Contemporary English Version
They tell these lies in my name, so now they will be killed in war or starve to death.

New American Bible
The prophets are wind, and the word is not with them. Let it be done to them!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

the prophets.

Jeremiah 14:13,15 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this place. . . .

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 20:8-11 For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity, and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me, and a derision all the day. . . .

Jeremiah 28:3 As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon.

Job 6:26 You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Context
No One is Just
…12They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine. 13The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Proverbs 25:14
As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Isaiah 41:29
Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Jeremiah 14:13
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this place.

Jeremiah 14:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Jeremiah 18:18
And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 22:22
The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 43:2
Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremiah: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.

Jeremiah 5:12
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