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11 For both the house of Israel and the house of Judah
    have been utterly unfaithful to me,”
        declares the Lord.
12 “They have lied about the Lord
    by saying, ‘He wouldn’t do that![a]
Disaster won’t come on us.
    We won’t see sword and famine.
13 The prophets are nothing but[b] wind,
    and the word is not in them.
So may the disaster happen to them!’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:12 Lit. Not he
  2. Jeremiah 5:13 The Heb. lacks nothing but
  3. Jeremiah 5:13 Lit. so let it be done to them