The Bible

Ezekiel Chapter 13

¹The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ²"Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, 'Hear Yahweh's word: ³LordOfMine Yahweh says, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! ⁴Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. ⁵You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh. ⁶They have seen emptiness and lying divination, who say, 'Yahweh says'; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. ⁷Haven't you seen an empty vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, 'Yahweh says'; but I have not spoken?"

⁸"'Therefore LordOfMine Yahweh says: "Because you have spoken emptiness, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you", says LordOfMine Yahweh. ⁹My hand shall be against the prophets who see emptiness, and divine lies: they won't be in the council of my people, nor will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor will they enter into the land of Israel; and you'll know that I am LordOfMine Yahweh.

¹⁰Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash: ¹¹tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. ¹²Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?

¹³Therefore thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. ¹⁴So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in its midst: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. ¹⁵Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it; ¹⁶[that is], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says LordOfMine Yahweh.

¹⁷You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, ¹⁸and say, Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? ¹⁹You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

²⁰Therefore thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make [them] fly. ²¹Your kerchiefs also I will tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. ²²Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive: ²³Therefore you shall no longer see emptiness, or practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.