1This word of the LORD came to me:
2“O man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying; say to those whose prophecies come from their own minds: Hear what the LORD says:
3These are the words of the Lord GOD: Woe betide the prophets bent on wickedness, who follow their own enthusiasms, for they have seen no vision!
4Your prophets, Israel, have been like jackals among ruins.
5They have not stepped into the breach to repair the broken wall for the Israelites, so that they might stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.
6The vision is false, the divination a lie! They claim, ‘It is the word of the LORD,’ when it is not the LORD who has sent them, yet they expect him to confirm their prophecies!
7Is it not a false vision that you prophets have seen? Is not your divination a lie? You call it the word of the LORD, but it is not I who have spoken.
8“The Lord GOD says: Because what you say is false and your visions are a lie, therefore I have set myself against you, says the Lord GOD.
9I shall raise my hand against the prophets whose visions are false, whose divinations are a lie. They will have no place in the assembly of my people; their names will not be entered in the roll of Israel, nor will they set foot on her soil. Thus you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
10“This they deserve, for they have misled my people by saying that all is well when nothing is well. It is as if my people were building a wall and the prophets used whitewash for the daubing.
11Tell these daubers that it will fall, for rain will pour down in torrents, and I shall send hailstones streaming down and unleash a storm-wind.
12When the wall collapses, it will be said, ‘Where is the plaster you used?’
13So this is what the Lord GOD says: In my rage I shall unleash a storm-wind; rain will come in torrents in my anger, hailstones in my fury, until all is destroyed.
14I shall overthrow the wall which you have daubed with whitewash and level it to the ground, laying bare its foundations. It will fall, and you will be destroyed with it: thus you will know that I am the LORD.
15I shall vent my rage on the wall and on those who daubed it with whitewash; and I shall say, ‘Gone is the wall and gone those who daubed it,
16those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem, who saw visions of well-being for her when there was no well-being.’ This is the word of the Lord GOD.
17“Now set your face, O man, against the women of your people whose prophecies come from their own minds; prophesy against them
18and say: This is the word of the Lord GOD: Woe betide you women who hunt men's lives by sewing magic bands on the wrists and putting veils over the heads of persons of every age! Are you to hunt the lives of my people and keep your own lives safe?
19You have dishonoured me in front of my people for some handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By telling my people lies they wish to hear, you bring death to those who should not die, and keep alive those who should not live.
20So this is what the Lord GOD says: I have set my face against your magic bands with which you hunt men's lives for the excitement of it. I shall tear them from your arms and set free those lives that you hunt just for excitement.
21I shall tear up your veils; I shall rescue my people from your clutches, and you will no longer have it in your power to hunt them. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.
22With your lying you undermined the righteous, when I meant no hurt; you so strengthened the wicked that they would not abandon their evil ways and save themselves.
23So never again will you see your false visions or practise divination. I shall rescue my people from your clutches; and thus you will know that I am the LORD.”
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