Ezekiel 13:1-10
Yahweh’s Wrath Against Lying Prophets
Then the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the aprophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own heart, ‘bHear the word of Yahweh! 3 Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the awickedly foolish prophets who are walking after their own spirit and have bseen nothing. 4 O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste places. 5 You have not agone up into the bbreaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the cday of Yahweh. 6 They behold aworthlessness and lying divination who are saying, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when Yahweh has not sent them; byet they wait for the establishing of their word. 7 aDid you not see a worthless vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘Yahweh declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
8 Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because you have spoken worthlessness and beheld a lie, therefore behold, aI am against you,” declares Lord Yahweh. 9 “So My hand will be against the aprophets who see worthless visions and utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of My people, bnor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am Lord Yahweh. 10 It is definitely because they have amisled My people by saying, ‘bPeace!’ when there is cno peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;
Ezekiel 13:22
22 Because you adisheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have bstrengthened the hands of the wicked not to cturn from his evil way and preserve his life,
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