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12 “They have denied Yahweh, and have said,
    ‘Not he, for[a] evil will not come on us,
    we will see neither sword nor famine.
13 And the prophets are like wind,
    and the word is not in them.’
Thus it will be done to them.”
14 Therefore[b] thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts,
    “Because you have spoken this word,
look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire,
    and this people wood, and it will devour them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:12 Literally “and”
  2. Jeremiah 5:14 Literally “To thus”