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13 And the prophets are like wind,
    and the word is not in them.’
Thus it will be done to them.”
14 Therefore[a] thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts,
    “Because you have spoken this word,
look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire,
    and this people wood, and it will devour them.
15 Look, I am about to bring on you a nation from afar,
    O house of Israel,” declares[b] Yahweh.
“It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation.[c]
    A nation whose language you do not know,
    and you cannot understand what they speak.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:14 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 5:15 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 5:15 Literally “a nation from a long time ago”