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Jeremiah 5:12

“They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.”

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¹⁰Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

¹¹For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.

¹²They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

¹³The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

¹⁴Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

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