For (A)the household gods (B)utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
(C)they tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore (D)the people wander like sheep;
    they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

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The idols(A) speak deceitfully,
    diviners(B) see visions that lie;
they tell dreams(C) that are false,
    they give comfort in vain.(D)
Therefore the people wander like sheep
    oppressed for lack of a shepherd.(E)

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36 (A)When he saw the crowds, (B)he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, (C)like sheep without a shepherd.

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36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,(A) because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.(B)

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(A)So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and (B)they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;

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So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(A) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(B)

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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes (C)speechless idols!

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18 “Of what value(A) is an idol(B) carved by a craftsman?
    Or an image(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
    he makes idols that cannot speak.(D)

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For the children of Israel (A)shall dwell many days (B)without king or prince, (C)without sacrifice or (D)pillar, without (E)ephod or (F)household gods.

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For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,(A) without sacrifice(B) or sacred stones,(C) without ephod(D) or household gods.(E)

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So (A)do not listen to your (B)prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your (C)fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’

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So do not listen to your prophets,(A) your diviners,(B) your interpreters of dreams,(C) your mediums(D) or your sorcerers(E) who tell you, ‘You will not serve(F) the king of Babylon.’

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19 Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's (A)household gods.

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(A)As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because (B)my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

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As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(A) and has become food for all the wild animals,(B) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(C)

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Therefore (A)it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without divination.
(B)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;
(C)the seers shall be disgraced,
    and the diviners put to shame;
(D)they shall all cover their lips,
    for (E)there is no answer from God.
But as for me, (F)I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob (G)his transgression
    and to Israel his sin.

(H)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel,
(I)who detest justice
    and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (J)who build Zion with blood
    and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (K)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (L)its priests teach for a price;
    (M)its prophets practice divination for money;
(N)yet they lean on the Lord and (O)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (P)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
    and darkness, without divination.(A)
The sun will set for the prophets,(B)
    and the day will go dark for them.(C)
The seers will be ashamed(D)
    and the diviners disgraced.(E)
They will all cover(F) their faces(G)
    because there is no answer from God.(H)
But as for me, I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression,
    to Israel his sin.(I)

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;(J)
10 who build(K) Zion with bloodshed,(L)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.(M)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(N)
    her priests teach for a price,(O)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(P)
Yet they look(Q) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(R)

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12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
    (A)I will gather (B)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
    like sheep in a fold,
(C)like a flock in its pasture,
    a noisy multitude of men.

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Deliverance Promised

12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;
    I will surely bring together the remnant(A) of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
    like a flock in its pasture;
    the place will throng with people.(B)

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29 while (A)they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, (B)whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

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29 Despite false visions concerning you
    and lying divinations(A) about you,
it will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain,
whose day has come,
    whose time of punishment has reached its climax.(B)

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21 For the king of Babylon stands (A)at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults (B)the teraphim;[a] he looks at the liver.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:21 Or household idols

21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots(A) with arrows, he will consult his idols,(B) he will examine the liver.(C)

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22 (A)Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and (B)you have encouraged the wicked, that (C)he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, 23 (D)therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”

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22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies,(A) when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,(B) 23 therefore you will no longer see false visions(C) or practice divination.(D) I will save(E) my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.(F)’”

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