Zechariah 10:2
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2 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.
Matthew 9:36
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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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Ezekiel 34:5
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5 (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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Habakkuk 2:18
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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!
Jeremiah 27:9
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9 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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Genesis 31:19
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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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Ezekiel 34:8
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8 (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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Micah 3:6-11
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6 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;
7 (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.
8 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.
9 (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.”
Micah 2:12
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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.
Ezekiel 21:29
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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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Ezekiel 21:21
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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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- Ezekiel 21:21 Or household idols
Ezekiel 13:22-23
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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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Ezekiel 13:6-16
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6 (A)They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ (B)when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, (C)whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, (D)I am against you, declares the Lord God. 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, (E)nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, (F)nor shall they enter the land of Israel. (G)And you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 Precisely because they have misled my people, (H)saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, (I)these prophets smear it with whitewash,[a] 11 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! (J)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: (K)I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, (L)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, (M)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 (N)and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 13:10 Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15
Jeremiah 51:23
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23 with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team;
with you I break in pieces (A)governors and commanders.
Jeremiah 37:19
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19 (A)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?
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Jeremiah 29:21-22
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21 ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, (A)who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes. 22 (B)Because of them (C)this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, (D)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”
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Jeremiah 29:8
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8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Do not let your prophets and (B)your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,[a]
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- Jeremiah 29:8 Hebrew your dreams, which you cause to dream
Jeremiah 28:15
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15 And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, (A)the Lord has not sent you, (B)and you have made this people trust in a lie.
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Jeremiah 28:4-6
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4 I will also bring back to this place (A)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, (B)for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, 6 and the prophet Jeremiah said, (C)“Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles.
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Jeremiah 23:25-27
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25 I have heard what the prophets have said (A)who prophesy lies in my name, saying, (B)‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long shall there be lies in the heart of (C)the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, 27 who think to make my people forget my name (D)by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their (E)fathers forgot my name for Baal?
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Jeremiah 23:17
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17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, (A)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who (B)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, (C)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”
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Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Are there any among (A)the false gods of the nations (B)that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
(C)for you do all these things.
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