(A)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.

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24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, (A)you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.” 25 But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, (B)most excellent Festus, but I am speaking (C)true and (D)rational words.

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The best of them is (A)like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (B)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
    (C)now their confusion is at hand.

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11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, (A)“Is all well? Why did (B)this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”

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21 (A)And when (B)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He (C)is out of his mind.”

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And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, (A)I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their punishment[a]—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:10 Or iniquity; three times in this verse

Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

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14 (A)Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
(B)they have not exposed your iniquity
    to (C)restore your fortunes,
(D)but have seen for you (E)oracles
    that are false and misleading.

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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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What will you do on (A)the day of punishment,
    in the ruin that will come (B)from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth?

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10 and with all wicked deception for (A)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore (B)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe (C)what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned (D)who did not believe the truth but (E)had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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13 For if we (A)are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

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22 for these are (A)days of (B)vengeance, to fulfill (C)all that is written.

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11 If a man should go about and (A)utter wind and lies,
    saying, “I will preach to you (B)of wine and strong drink,”
    he would be the preacher for this people!

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10 Precisely because they have misled my people, (A)saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, (B)these prophets smear it with whitewash,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 13:10 Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15

26 ‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have (A)charge in the house of the Lord (B)over every madman who prophesies, to put him in (C)the stocks and neck irons.

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19 (A)The great city (B)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God (C)remembered (D)Babylon the great, (E)to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

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15 Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of (A)a foolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd (B)who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but (C)devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

17 (D)“Woe to my worthless shepherd,
    (E)who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
    and (F)his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
    his right eye utterly blinded!”

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(A)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(B)her priests (C)profane what is holy;
    they do violence to the law.

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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    (B)the mighty man cries aloud there.
15 (C)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (D)ruin and devastation,
    (E)a day of darkness and gloom,
(F)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16     (G)a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
(H)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

17 (I)I will bring distress on mankind,
    so that they shall walk (J)like the blind,
    because they have sinned against the Lord;
(K)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
    and their flesh (L)like dung.
18 (M)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(N)In the fire of his jealousy,
    (O)all the earth shall be consumed;
(P)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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And he said, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, (B)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

(C)“The end[a] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike

The prophet is (A)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet (B)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.

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23 So I will show my greatness and my (A)holiness and (B)make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then (C)they will know that I am the Lord.

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17 I will execute great vengeance on them (A)with wrathful rebukes. (B)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

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22 “Son of man, (A)what is this proverb that you[a] have about the land of Israel, saying, (B)‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’? 23 Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, (C)The days are near, and the fulfillment[b] of every vision. 24 (D)For there shall be no more any (E)false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the Lord; I will speak (F)the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. (G)It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, (H)O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”

26 And the word of the Lord came to me: 27 “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, (I)‘The vision that he sees is (J)for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’ 28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: (K)None of my words will be delayed any longer, (L)but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 12:22 The Hebrew for you is plural
  2. Ezekiel 12:23 Hebrew word

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