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14 Therefore, the Lord God of heavenly forces proclaims:

Because you have spoken this way,
    I will put my words
        in your mouth as a fire;
    it will consume the people,
        who are but kindling.
15 I am about to bring a distant nation against you,
        people of Israel,
        declares the Lord.
    It is an established nation,
        an ancient nation,
        a nation whose language you don’t know,
        whose speech you won’t understand.
16 Its weapons are deadly;[a]
    its warriors are many.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:16 Or Its quiver is like an open grave

14 Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says:

“Because the people have spoken these words,
    I will make my words in your mouth(A) a fire(B)
    and these people the wood it consumes.(C)
15 People of Israel,” declares the Lord,
    “I am bringing a distant nation(D) against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language(E) you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.
16 Their quivers(F) are like an open grave;
    all of them are mighty warriors.

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