Jeremiah 5:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. And the prophets shall become wind - What are the prophets?

Empty persons. Their words are wind; we hear the sound of their threatening but of the matter of the threatenings we shall hear no more.

And the word is not in them - There is no inspirer, but may their own predictions fall on their own heads! This seems the natural sense of this passage.

Jeremiah 5:13

13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.