Jeremiah 5:13-15

Complete Jewish Bible

¹³The prophets are merely wind,
they do not have the word;
the things that they are predicting
will happen only to them.”

¹⁴Therefore Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot says:

“Because you people speak this way,
I will make my words fire in your mouth, [Yirmeyahu,]
and this people wood;
so that it will devour them.
¹⁵I will bring on you, house of Isra’el,
a distant nation,” says Adonai,
“an enduring nation, an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know —
you will not understand what they are saying.

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