A condemnation of false prophets
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And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 📚“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts✭, ‘Hear the word of the LORD. 3 📚Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets✭, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 📚✭O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 📚You have not gone up into the gaps, or made a wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6 📚✭They see a false thing and lying divination, saying, “The LORD says”, and the LORD has not sent them; and they have made others hope that they would confirm the word. 7 📚Have you not seen a false vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination when you say, “The LORD says it”, although I have not spoken? 8 📚✭“‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, see, I am against you, says the Lord God. 9 📚And my hand will be on the prophets who see false things, and lying divinations. They will not be in the assembly of my people, nor will they be written in the records of the house of Israel, and they will not enter the land of Israel; and you will know that I am the Lord God.
10 📚✭“‘Because, yes, because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace”, when there was no peace, and one builds a wall, and, see, others daub it with whitewash, 11 📚✭say to those who daub it with whitewash, that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind will tear it down. 12 📚✭Look, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, “Where is the whitewash with which you daubed it?”
13 📚“‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: In my fury I will tear it down with a stormy wind, and in my anger there will be a torrential rain, and in my fury great hailstones to destroy it. 14 📚So I will break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered, and it will fall, and you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the LORD. 15 📚Thus I will spend my wrath on the wall, and on those who have daubed it with whitewash, and will say to you, The wall is gone, and those who daubed it, 16 📚that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord God.’
17 📚✭“Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart, and prophesy against them, 18 📚and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all wrists, and make veils on the heads of every height to hunt for souls! Will you hunt for the souls of my people, and will you save alive the souls who come to you? 19 📚✭And will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save alive the souls that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?
20 📚✭“‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: See, I am against your charms, with which you there hunt souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls that you hunt like birds. 21 📚✭I will also tear off your veils, and rescue my people out of your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am the LORD. 22 📚✭Because with your lies you have saddened the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked by promising him life, so that he would not turn back from his wicked way. 23 📚Therefore you will no longer see false visions, or practice divinations, for I will deliver my people out of your hands; and you will know that I am the LORD.’ ”