"You speak of [having] plans and power for war; but [they are] mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.'

Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? "So they returned and said: 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He has dealt with us.' " ' "

You have said, 'It is useless to serve God; What profit [is it] that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts?

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.