Jer 27:2-12, Eze 13:5-16, Mic 3:11 | ESV | STEP | Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself straps and yoke-bars , and put them on your neck .

2 Thus the Lord said to me: ^a“Make yourself straps and ^byoke-bars, and put them on your neck. 3 Send word ^{▼▼Hebrew Send them} to the king of ^dEdom, the king of ^eMoab, the king of the sons of ^fAmmon, the king of ^gTyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: 5 “It is I who ^hby my great power and my outstretched arm ⁱhave made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, ^jand I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 ^kNow I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ^lmy servant, ^mand I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 ⁿAll the nations shall serve him and ^ohis son and ^phis grandson, ^quntil the time of his own land comes. ^rThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

8 “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^sand put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation ^twith the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand. 9 So ^udo not listen to your ^vprophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your ^wfortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 ^xFor it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. 11 ^yBut any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord.”’”

12 To ^zZedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: ^aa“Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and ^abserve him and his people and live.

Ezekiel 13:5-16

5 ^acYou 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 ^adThey have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ ^aewhen the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, ^afwhenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”

8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, ^agI am against you, declares the Lord God. 9 My 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, ^ahnor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, ^ainor shall they enter the land of Israel. ^ajAnd you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 Precisely because they have misled my people, ^aksaying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, ^althese prophets smear it with whitewash, ^{▼▼Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15} 11 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! ^anThere will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. 12 And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’ 13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^aoI will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, ^apand there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. 14 And 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, ^aqand you shall know that I am the Lord. 15 Thus 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, 16 the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem ^arand saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.

Micah 3:11

11 ^asIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
^atits priests teach for a price;
^auits prophets practice divination for money;
^avyet they lean on the Lord and ^awsay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
^axNo disaster shall come upon us.”