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Ezekiel

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Chapter 13

¹The word of the LORD came to me: ²“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own imagination, ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’ ³Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! ⁴Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. ⁵You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD. ⁶They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. ⁷Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, when you say, ‘Declares the LORD,’ though I have not spoken? ⁸Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. ⁹My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. ¹⁰Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when someone builds a wall, these daub it with whitewash, ¹¹say to those who daub it with whitewash that it will fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind will break it down. ¹²And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you daubed it’? ¹³Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a complete end. ¹⁴Thus 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 laid bare. When it falls, you will perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD. ¹⁵Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have daubed it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it— ¹⁶the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁷“And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them ¹⁸and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? ¹⁹You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies. ²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds. ²¹Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people from your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the LORD. ²²Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way and live, ²³therefore you shall no longer see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people from your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”