⁹ “In that day, declares the Lord, ^(A)courage shall fail both king and officials. The priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.”

⁹ My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, ^(A)nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, ^(B)nor shall they enter the land of Israel. ^(C)And you shall know that I am the Lord God. ¹⁰ Precisely because they have misled my people, ^(D)saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, ^(E)these prophets smear it with whitewash,^{[a] 11} say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! ^(F)There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. ¹² And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’ ¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(G)I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, ^(H)and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. ¹⁴ And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, ^(I)and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁵ Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, ¹⁶ the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem ^(J)and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.

⁷ Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

⁴ When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward ^(A)the Arabah. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in ^(B)the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at ^(C)Riblah, in the land of Hamath; ^(D)and he passed sentence on him.

^19 (A)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?