Yahweh’s Wrath Against Lying Prophets

13 Then the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ² “Son of man, prophesy against the ^(A)prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own heart, ‘^(B)Hear the word of Yahweh! ³ Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the ^(C)wickedly foolish prophets who are walking after their own spirit and have ^(D)seen nothing. ⁴ O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste places. ⁵ You have not ^(E)gone up into the ^(F)breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the ^(G)day of Yahweh. ⁶ They behold ^(H)worthlessness and lying divination who are saying, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when Yahweh has not sent them; ^(I)yet they wait for the establishing of their word. ^7 (J)Did you not see a worthless vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘Yahweh declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”

⁸ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because you have spoken worthlessness and beheld a lie, therefore behold, ^(K)I am against you,” declares Lord Yahweh. ⁹ “So My hand will be against the ^(L)prophets who see worthless visions and utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of My people, ^(M)nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, ^[a]that you may know that I am Lord Yahweh. ¹⁰ It is definitely because they have ^(N)misled My people by saying, ‘^(O)Peace!’ when there is ^(P)no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash; ¹¹ so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash that it will fall. A ^(Q)flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a stormy wind will break out. ¹² Now behold, the wall will fall. Will it then not be said to you, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’” ¹³ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will make a stormy wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and ^(R)hailstones to consume it in wrath. ¹⁴ So I will pull down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its ^(S)foundation is laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be ^(T)consumed in its midst. And you will ^(U)know that I am Yahweh. ¹⁵ Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, ‘The wall ^[b]is gone, and its plasterers are gone— ¹⁶ the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and who ^(V)see visions of peace for her when there is ^(W)no peace,’ declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁷ “Now as for you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are ^(X)prophesying ^(Y)from their own heart. Prophesy against them ¹⁸ and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on ^[c]all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to ^(Z)hunt down ^[d]souls! Will you hunt down My people’s souls, but preserve your own souls? ^19 (AA)For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death souls who should not die and to ^(AB)keep other souls alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”

²⁰ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt souls there as ^[e]birds, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let their souls go, the very souls whom you hunt as ^[f]birds. ²¹ I will also tear off your veils and ^(AC)deliver My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am Yahweh. ²² Because you ^(AD)disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have ^(AE)strengthened the hands of the wicked not to ^(AF)turn from his evil way and preserve his life, ²³ therefore, you women will no longer see ^(AG)worthless visions or practice divination, and I will ^(AH)deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will ^(AI)know that I am Yahweh.”