Jeremiah 5:14 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁴ Therefore thus said יהוה Elohim of hosts, “Because you speak this word, see, I am making My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: Because you [the people] have spoken this word, behold, I will make My words fire in your mouth [Jeremiah] and this people wood, and it will devour them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Therefore, the LORD God of heavenly forces proclaims: Because you have spoken this way, I will put my words in your mouth as a fire; it will consume the people, who are but kindling.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: "Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth as fire and this people as wood; and it shall devour them.

Jeremiah 5:14 Cross References

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

Jeremiah 1:9

Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth.

Jeremiah 23:29

“Is not My Word like a fire?” declares יהוה, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock?

Hosea 6:5

“Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of My mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.

Zechariah 1:6

“But My words and My laws, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers?” “Then they turned back and said, ‘As יהוה of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.’” ’ ”