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.
Ver. 14. Because ye speak this word.] Ungodly men shall one day answer, with all the world on fire about their ears, for all their hard and haughty speeches. Jdg 1:15 They shall find that neither their own words are wind, but such as they shall give a sad account of; nor the prophet's words wind, unless it be to blow them into the bottomless lake, and to torment their consciences, haply in the meanwhile more than wind doth men's bodies, when gotten once into the veins or bowels.
Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire.] That is somewhat worse than wind. Oh fear this fire! vengeance is in readiness for the disobedient; 2Co 10:5 every whit as ready in God's hand as in the minister's mouth. See Zechariah 1:6. See Trapp on " Zec 1:6 "