Ezekiel 13:3-12

New King James Version

³ Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen ^[a]nothing! ⁴ O Israel, your prophets are ^(A)like foxes in the deserts. ⁵ You ^(B)have not gone up into the ^[b]gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord. ^6 (C)They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has ^(D)not sent them; yet they hope that the word may ^[c]be confirmed. ⁷ Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God. ⁹ “My hand will be ^(E)against the prophets who envision futility and who ^(F)divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, ^(G)nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, ^(H)nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. ^(I)Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.

¹⁰ “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ^(J)‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they ^(K)plaster^[d] it with untempered mortar— ¹¹ say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. ^(L)There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. ¹² Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”