Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And your judgments are like light that goes forth.

The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways— Enmity in the house of his God.

I have also spoken by the prophets, And have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.”

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.