Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words.”

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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14 (A)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?

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Yet surely (A)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?

“So they returned and said:

(B)‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

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(A)that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.’

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Shall [a]words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:3 Empty words

20 You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are [a]mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:20 Lit. a word of the lips

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