Jeremiah 5:12-14

Easy-to-Read Version

¹² “Those people lied about the Lord.
    They said, ‘He will not do anything to us.
Nothing bad will happen to us.
    We will never see an army attack us.
    We will never starve.’
¹³ The prophets are only empty wind.^[a]
    The word of God is not in them.^[b]
    Bad things will happen to them.”

¹⁴ The Lord God All-Powerful said these things:
    “The people said I would not punish them.
So, Jeremiah, the words I give you will be like fire,
    and these people will be like wood.
    That fire will burn them up completely.”