Jeremiah 5:13

Jeremiah 5:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
• New International Version (NIV)The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"
• New King James Version (NKJV)And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.”

Context of Jeremiah 5:13

11The people of Israel and Judah have turned against me. 12They have told lies about the Lord. They have said, “He will not punish us! No trouble will come to us. There will be no war. There will be no famine. The prophets speak empty words. They do not speak the Lord's messages. The troubles that they talk about should happen to them, not us!” ’ 14Because of that, the Lord God Almighty said to me, ‘That is what the people are saying. So I will give you a strong message to speak to them. It will be like fire that comes out of your mouth. And the people will burn like wood in that fire.’ 15The Lord says this: ‘Listen to me, you people of Israel. I will bring an army to attack you. They will come from a nation that is far away. It is a strong nation that started long ago. You do not know their language. You cannot understand what they say.

Jeremiah 5:13 word by word

וְהַנְּבִיאִים֙ יִֽהְי֣וּ לְר֔וּחַ וְהַדִּבֵּ֖ר אֵ֣ין בָּהֶ֑ם כֹּ֥ה יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה לָהֶֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the prophetsנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• shall become windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• and the wordדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• not in them: thus shall it be doneעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213

Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:13

• Jeremiah 14:13I said, ‘Lord God, the prophets are deceiving the people. They say that there will not be any war or famine or disease that will hurt the people. Instead, they say that you have promised peace in our land.’
• Jeremiah 18:18Then some people said, ‘We must find a way to stop Jeremiah. We do not need him. The priests will still be here to teach us. Wise men will still be here to give us advice. The prophets will still be here to give us God's messages. We should speak bad things against Jeremiah. Then we will not have to listen to him any more.’
• Jeremiah 20:8When I speak your message, I have to say, ‘Terrible trouble is coming!’ When I shout that message from the Lord, people laugh at me. They insult me.
• Jeremiah 28:3King Nebuchadnezzar took with him to Babylon many valuable things from this temple. In less than two years, I will bring all those things back here.
• Job 6:26You are warning me because of what I say. I have no hope and you think that my words are empty.
• Job 8:2‘You should not continue to talk like this. Your words are like a wind that blows strongly.
• Hosea 9:7The time for Israel's punishment has arrived! The Lord must now pay them back for their sins. The Israelites will soon know about it! You do many sins and you hate the Lord. Because of that, you say that his prophets are fools. You think that his messengers are crazy.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13And the prophets shall become wind - What are the prophets? Empty persons. Their words are wind; we hear the sound of their threatening but of the matter of the threatenings we shall hear no more. And the word is not in them - There is no inspirer, but may their own predictions fall on their own heads! This seems the natural sense of this passage.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Word - Rather, speaker. Literally, And he who speaketh is not in them, i. e., there is no one who speaketh in them; what the prophets say has no higher authority than themselves. Thus … - i. e., May the evil which the prophets threaten fall upon their head.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that tends to part them from, or to disquiet them in, their sins. Mocking and misusing the Lord's messengers, filled the measure of their iniquity. God can bring trouble upon us from places and causes very remote. He has mercy in store for his people…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-13Even with the enemy approaching from the north, the people believed nothing bad would happen to them (Jeremiah 14:13; Isaiah 47:8). They did not respect God’s prophets (literally the prophets). Some interpreters end the people’s quote with Jeremiah 5:12 and attribute 5:13 to the Lord. The term "for the wind" would then refer to false prophets.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Continuation of the unbelieving language of the Jews. the prophets--who prophesy punishment coming on us. the word--the Holy Spirit, who speaks through true prophets, is not in them [Maurer]. Or else, "There is no word (divine communication) in them" (Ho 1:2) [Rosenmuller]. thus, &c.--Their ill-omened prophecies shall fall on themselves.Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Deceit
• Exodus, the Book of
• Jeremiah (2)
• Wind

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings