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Jeremiah 5:14

Jeremiah 5:14
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, because ye speak this word,.... That it is not the Lord; it is not he that speaks; it is no prophecy of him, and therefore shall become wind, and come to…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 5:10-19

We may observe in these verses, as before,

I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer 5:10. But is there…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

"Ye" (the people) "thy" (Jeremiah's). Cp. Jer 23:39.