Jeremiah 5:12-14

Good News Translation

The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² The Lord's people have denied him and have said, “He won't really do anything.^[a] We won't have hard times; we won't have war or famine.” ^13-14 They have said that the prophets are nothing but windbags and that they have no message from the Lord. The Lord God Almighty said to me, “Jeremiah, because these people have said such things, I will make my words like a fire in your mouth. The people will be like wood, and the fire will burn them up.”