Isaiah 58:1
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Chapter 58
Reasons for Judgment[a]
1 Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Proclaim to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.(A)
Footnotes
- 58:1–5 The prophet is commanded to condemn the formalism of the people, specifically their hypocritical fasting.
Jeremiah 2:8
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8 The priests did not ask,
“Where is the Lord?”
The experts in the law[a] did not know me:
the shepherds rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
and went after useless idols.(A)
Footnotes
- 2:8 Experts in the law: the priests. The shepherds: the kings and nobles.
Jeremiah 23:16
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16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Do not listen to the words of your prophets,
who fill you with emptiness;
They speak visions from their own fancy,
not from the mouth of the Lord.(A)
Ezekiel 13:9
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9 My hand is against the prophets who see false visions and who make lying divinations. They shall not belong to the community of my people. They shall not be written in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.(A)
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Ezekiel 22:28
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28 (A)And her prophets cover them with whitewash, seeing false visions and performing lying divinations, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” although the Lord has not spoken.
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