Yēlìmǐshū 5:13

13 Xiānzhī de huà bì chéngwéi fēng . dào yĕ bù zaì tāmen lǐmiàn . zhè zāi bì líndào tāmen shēnshang .

Yēlìmǐshū 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 5:13

And the prophets shall become wind
Their prophecies shall vanish into air; they shall become of no effect; they shall never be accomplished: and the word is not in them;
not the word of the Lord; he never spoke by them; they speak of themselves; they never were inspired or commissioned by him to say what they do: thus shall it be done unto them; the same evils they say shall befall us shall come upon them; they shall perish by the sword or famine; we have reason to believe that our predictions are as good as theirs, and will be fulfilled: or, "thus let it be done to them" ^F25; as they have prophesied shall be done to us; and so are an imprecation. The Targum interprets the whole of the false prophets, as if they were the words of the Lord concerning them, which is,

``but the false prophets shall be for nothing, and their false prophecy shall not be confirmed; this revenge shall be taken of them;''

and so Kimchi interprets it of the prophets that prophesied peace to them, and said that the above mentioned should not come upon them; and Jarchi takes the last clause to be the words of the prophet to them that say the above words; namely, that thus it shall be done to them, what the Lord has said.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Mhl hvey hk) "sic fiat illis"; so some in Vatablus; "sic eveniat ipsis", Cocceius.

Yēlìmǐshū 5:13 In-Context

11 Yuánlái Yǐsèliè jiā hé Yóudà jiā dà xíng guǐzhà gōngjī wǒ . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

12 Tāmen bù rèn Yēhéhuá , shuō , zhè bìng bù shì tā , zāihuò bì bù líndào wǒmen . dāo jiàn hé jīhuāng , wǒmen yĕ kàn bú jiàn .

13 Xiānzhī de huà bì chéngwéi fēng . dào yĕ bù zaì tāmen lǐmiàn . zhè zāi bì líndào tāmen shēnshang .

14 Suǒyǐ Yēhéhuá wàn jūn zhī shén rúcǐ shuō , yīnwei bǎixìng shuō zhè huà , wǒ bì shǐ wǒde huà zaì nǐ kǒu zhōng wèi huǒ , shǐ tāmen wèi chái . zhè huǒ biàn jiāng tāmen shāo miè .

15 Yēhéhuá shuō , Yǐsèliè jiā a , wǒ bì shǐ yī guó de mín cóng yuǎnfāng lái gōngjī nǐ , shì qiángshèng de guó , shì cóng gǔ ér yǒude guó . tāmende yányǔ nǐ bú xiǎodé , tāmende huà nǐ bù míngbai .