aSee ch. 2:1
bver. 17; Jer. 23:16, 26
cch. 22:30; Ps. 106:23; [Ps. 80:12; Isa. 5:5; 58:12]
dver. 23; ch. 12:24; 21:29; 22:28; Jer. 5:31
eSee Jer. 14:14
fJer. 23:21
gch. 5:8; 21:3; 26:3; 28:22; 29:3; 30:22; 34:10; 35:3; 38:3; Jer. 21:13
h[Ezra 2:59, 62; Neh. 7:5; Ps. 69:28; 87:6]
ich. 20:38
jSee ch. 6:7
kver. 16; Jer. 6:14; Mic. 3:5
lch. 22:28
nch. 38:22; Isa. 28:2, 17; [Isa. 30:13]
o[See ver. 11 above]
p[See ver. 11 above]
qSee ch. 6:7
r[See ver. 10 above]

Ezekiel 13:1-16

False Prophets Condemned

1The word of the Lord came to me: 2 a“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those bwho prophesy from their own hearts: ‘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. 5 cYou 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. 6 dThey have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ ewhen 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, fwhenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”

8Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, gI 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, hnor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, inor shall they enter the land of Israel. jAnd you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10Precisely because they have misled my people, ksaying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, lthese prophets smear it with whitewash, ▼
▼Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15
 11say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! nThere will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. 12And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’ 13Therefore thus says the Lord God: oI will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, pand there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. 14And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, qand you shall know that I am the Lord. 15Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, 16the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem rand saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.

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