Jeremia 5:13

Lutherbibel

Ja, die Propheten sind Schwätzer und haben auch Gottes Wort nicht; es gehe über sie selbst also!"

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und die Propheten sind nur Windbeutel, und niemand redet durch sie; ihnen selbst ergehe es so!

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.