Jeremiah 5:13
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
American Standard Version (ASV)
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.
Webster's Revision
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
World English Bible
The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."
English Revised Version (ERV)
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Clarke's Jeremiah 5:13 Bible Commentary
And 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.
Barnes's Jeremiah 5:13 Bible Commentary
Word - 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.
Wesley's Jeremiah 5:13 Bible Commentary
5:13 Became wind - A proverbial expression, all the prophet's threats shall come to nothing. The word - The prophet's words are not from God.Thus - It shall fall upon their own heads that have thus threatened us.
