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וְהַנְּבִיאִים֙ יִֽהְי֣וּ לְר֔וּחַ וְהַדִּבֵּ֖ר אֵ֣ין בָּהֶ֑ם כֹּ֥ה יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה לָהֶֽם׃ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them. Jeremiah 5:13 is part of a scathing prophetic denunciation against false prophets in Yehudah. The people have dismissed YHWH’s warnings and now, in ironic reversal, YHWH declares that the prophets themselves are empty—like wind, without true speech. The verse is grammatically compact yet loaded with poetic devices: metaphor, negation, and passive judgment.… Learn Hebrew