Jeremiah 5:13

The NET Bible®

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.'"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The prophets become only wind,for the Lord’s word is not in them.This will in fact happen to them.

Hebrew Names Version
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

King James Version
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

English Standard Version
The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"

New American Standard Bible
"The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. So it will be done to them!"

New Century Version
The prophets are like an empty wind; the word of God is not in them. Let the bad things they say happen to them."

Amplified Bible
"The prophets are like the wind [their prophecy will not come to pass], And the word [of God] is not in them. In this manner it will be done to them [as they prophesied, not to us]."

World English Bible
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Prophetes shall be as winde, and the worde is not in them: thus shall it come vnto them.

Legacy Standard Bible
The prophets are as wind,And the word is not in them.Thus it will be done to them!"

Berean Standard Bible
The prophets are but wind, for the LORD's word is not in them. So let their own words be done to them."

Contemporary English Version
They tell these lies in my name, so now they will be killed in war or starve to death.

Complete Jewish Bible
The prophets are merely wind, they do not have the word; the things that they are predicting will happen only to them."

Darby Translation
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Easy-to-Read Version
The prophets are only empty wind. The word of God is not in them. Bad things will happen to them."

George Lamsa Translation
And the prophets shall become a whirlwind and will have nothing to say; thus shall it be done to them.

Good News Translation
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."

Lexham English Bible
And the prophets are like wind, and the word is not in them.' Thus it will be done to them."

Literal Translation
And the prophets shall become wind, and the Word is not in them; so it shall be done to them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the warnynge of the prophetes, they take it but for wynde, yee there is none of these, which will tell them, that soch thinges shal happen vnto them.

American Standard Version
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Bible in Basic English
And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them; thus be it done unto them.'

King James Version (1611)
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done vnto them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for the warning of the prophetes, it is but wynde, yea there is not the worde of God in them: such thynges shall happen vnto them selues.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.

English Revised Version
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The profetis spaken ayens the wynd, and noon answer was in hem; therfor these thingis schulen come to hem.

Update Bible Version
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus it shall be done to them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

New King James Version
And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

New Living Translation
God's prophets are all windbags who don't really speak for him. Let their predictions of disaster fall on themselves!'"

New Life Bible
The men who speak for God are only wind. The word is not in them. So let what they say be done to them!'"

New Revised Standard
The prophets are nothing but wind, for the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the prophets, shall prove to be wind, And there is no one speaking in them, - Thus, shall it be done to themselves!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Revised Standard Version
The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"

Young's Literal Translation
And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' -- thus it is done by them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them!"

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ The Lord commanded the enemy, "March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord . ¹¹ For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me," says the Lord . ¹² "These people have denied what the Lord says. They have said, ‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine. ¹³ The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.'" ¹⁴ Because of that, the Lord , the God who rules over all, said to me, "Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up." ¹⁵ The Lord says, "Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand. ¹⁶ All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave. ¹⁷ They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in. ¹⁸ Yet even then I will not completely destroy you," says the Lord . ¹⁹ "So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?' tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the prophets: Jeremiah 14:13, Jeremiah 14:15, Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 20:8-11, Jeremiah 28:3, Job 6:26, Job 8:2, Hosea 9:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless 2 Chronicles 36:16 - mocked Isaiah 5:19 - Let him Isaiah 41:29 - wind Jeremiah 12:4 - He Jeremiah 43:2 - Thou speakest Ezekiel 12:22 - The days Habakkuk 1:5 - for 2 Peter 3:4 - where

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the prophets shall become wind,.... Their prophecies shall vanish into air; they shall become of no effect; they shall never be accomplished:

and the word is not in them; not the word of the Lord; he never spoke by them; they speak of themselves; they never were inspired or commissioned by him to say what they do: thus shall it be done unto them; the same evils they say shall befall us shall come upon them; they shall perish by the sword or famine; we have reason to believe that our predictions are as good as theirs, and will be fulfilled: or, "thus let it be done to them" y; as they have prophesied shall be done to us; and so are an imprecation. The Targum interprets the whole of the false prophets, as if they were the words of the Lord concerning them, which is,

"but the false prophets shall be for nothing, and their false prophecy shall not be confirmed; this revenge shall be taken of them;''

and so Kimchi interprets it of the prophets that prophesied peace to them, and said that the above mentioned should not come upon them; and Jarchi takes the last clause to be the words of the prophet to them that say the above words; namely, that thus it shall be done to them, what the Lord has said.

y כה יעשה להם "sic fiat illis"; so some in Vatablus; "sic eveniat ipsis", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:13. And the prophets shall become wind — What are the prophets? Empty persons. Their words are wind; we hear the sound of their threatenings, 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.