John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 5:13

"and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them." — Jeremiah 5:13 (ASV)

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.

---

FOOTNOTES:

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