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Jeremiah 5:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. "

Jeremiah 5:14

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12 They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

14 Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

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Nahum 2:13

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"“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”"

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Jeremiah 19:15

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"“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”"

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Jeremiah 9:15

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"Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink."

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Numbers 14:35

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"I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”"

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Isaiah 5:24

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"Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel."

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Jeremiah 23:29

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"“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?"

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From This Chapter

Jeremiah 5:1

"“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her."

Jeremiah 5:2

"Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”"

Jeremiah 5:3

"O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return."

Jeremiah 5:4

"Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God."

Jeremiah 5:5

"I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds."

Jeremiah 5:6

"Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased."

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