No peace to all flesh.[421]
Wheat have they sown and reaped thorns, 13
Have travailed for nought,
Ashamed of their crop shall they be
In the heat of God's wrath.]
The last eight lines are doubtfully original: the speaker is no longer God Himself. There follows, in verses 14-17, a paragraph in prose, which is hardly relevant—a later addition, whether from the Prophet or an editor.
The next metrical Oracles are appended to the Parables of the Waist-cloth and of the Jars in Ch. XIII.[422] We have already quoted, in proof of Jeremiah's poetic power, the most solemn warning he gave to his people, XIII. 15, 16.[423] At some time these lines were added to it:—
But if ye will not hear it: XIII. 17
In secret my soul shall weep
Because of your pride,