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1The word of the Lord came to me:
2Mortal, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying; say to those who prophesy out of their own imaginations: “Hear the word of the Lord !”[#v 17; Jer 14.14; 23.16, 26; 37.19; Am 7.16]
3Thus says the Lord God : Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing![#Jer 23.28–32; Lam 2.14]
4Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.
5You have not gone up into the breaches or repaired a wall for the house of Israel, so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord .[#Ps 106.23, 30; Isa 58.12; Ezek 7.19; 22.30]
6They have envisioned falsehood and lying divination; they say, “Says the Lord ,” when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they wait for the fulfillment of their word![#v 22; Jer 28.15; Ezek 22.28]
7Have you not seen a false vision or uttered a lying divination when you have said, “Says the Lord ,” even though I did not speak?
8Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God .
9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not be in the council of my people nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God .[#Ezra 2.59, 62; Neh 7.5; Ps 69.28; Ezek 11.10, 12]
10Because, in truth, because they have misled my people, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a flimsy wall, these prophets smear whitewash on it.[#v 16; Jer 8.11; 50.6; Ezek 22.28; #13.10 Heb they]
11Say to those who smear whitewash on it that it shall fall. There will be a deluge of rain, great hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break out.[#Ezek 38.22; #13.11 Heb rain and you]
12When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, “Where is the whitewash you smeared on it?”
13Therefore thus says the Lord God : In my wrath I will make a stormy wind break out, and in my anger there shall be a deluge of rain and hailstones in wrath to destroy it.
14I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash and bring it to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare; when the city falls, you shall perish within it, and you shall know that I am the Lord .[#v 9; Ezek 14.8; Mic 1.6]
15Thus I will 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—
16the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for it when there was no peace, says the Lord God .”[#Isa 57.21; Ezek 6.14]
17As for you, mortal, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imaginations; prophesy against them[#v 2 ; Ezek 20.46; 21.2]
18and say: Thus says the Lord God : Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?[#Ezek 22.25; 2 Pet 2.14]
19You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.[#Prov 28.21; Jer 23.14, 17; Ezek 20.39; Mic 3.5]
20Therefore thus says the Lord God : I am against your bands with which you hunt lives; I will tear them from your arms and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.[#13.20 Gk Syr: Heb lives for birds]
21I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands; they shall no longer be prey in your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord .
22Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened them, and you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked way and save their lives,[#Jer 23.14; Ezek 33.14–16; Am 5.12]
23therefore you shall no longer see false visions or practice divination; I will save my people from your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord .[#vv 6, 9; Ezek 12.24; 14.8; Mic 3.6]