Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 5:14
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 14) Thus says the Lord God of hosts, because you have spoken these words: behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire, and this people like wood, and it shall devour them. You said: The prophets have spoken in vain, and their threats will not come to pass: therefore, O prophet, I will make my words in…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
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In context
12have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
13Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
— Jeremiah 5:14 —
15Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.
16They are all mighty men: