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And the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy ,
and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart , "
Hear the word of the LORD !"'
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Woe to the foolish prophets ,
who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing !
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O Israel ,
your prophets are like foxes in the deserts .
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You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD .
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They have envisioned futility and false divination ,
saying , "
Thus says the LORD !'
But the LORD has not sent them ;
yet they hope that the word may be confirmed .
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Have you not seen a futile vision ,
and have you not spoken false divination ?
You say , "
The LORD says ,'
but I have not spoken ."
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies ,
therefore I am indeed against you ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies ;
they shall not be in the assembly of My people ,
nor be written in the record of the house of Israel ,
nor shall they enter into the land of Israel .
Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD .
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Because ,
indeed ,
because they have seduced My people ,
saying , "
Peace !'
when there is no peace--and one builds a wall ,
and they plaster it with untempered mortar --
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say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar ,
that it will fall .
There will be flooding rain ,
and you ,
O great hailstones ,
shall fall ;
and a stormy wind shall tear it down .
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Surely ,
when the wall has fallen ,
will it not be said to you , "
Where is the mortar with which you plastered it ?"'
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury ;
and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger ,
and great hailstones in fury to consume it .
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So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar ,
and bring it down to the ground ,
so that its foundation will be uncovered ;
it will fall ,
and you shall be consumed in the midst of it .
Then you shall know that I am the LORD .
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Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar ;
and I will say to you , "
The wall is no more ,
nor those who plastered it ,
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that is ,
the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem ,
and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace ,"'
says the Lord GOD .
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Likewise ,
son of man ,
set your face against the daughters of your people ,
who prophesy out of their own heart ;
prophesy against them ,
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and say , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls !
Will you hunt the souls of My people ,
and keep yourselves alive ?
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And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread ,
killing people who should not die ,
and keeping people alive who should not live ,
by your lying to My people who listen to lies ?"
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Behold ,
I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like birds .
I will tear them from your arms ,
and let the souls go ,
the souls you hunt like birds .
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I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand ,
and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand .
Then you shall know that I am the LORD .
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Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad ,
whom I have not made sad ;
and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked ,
so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life .
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Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination ;
for I will deliver My people out of your hand ,
and you shall know that I am the LORD .""'
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Now some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me .
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And the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
these men have set up their idols in their hearts ,
and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity .
Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them ?
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Therefore speak to them ,
and say to them , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart ,
and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity ,
and then comes to the prophet ,
I the LORD will answer him who comes ,
according to the multitude of his idols ,
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that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart ,
because they are all estranged from Me by their idols ."'
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Therefore say to the house of Israel , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Repent ,
turn away from your idols ,
and turn your faces away from all your abominations .
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For anyone of the house of Israel ,
or of the strangers who dwell in Israel ,
who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity ,
then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me ,
I the LORD will answer him by Myself .
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I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb ,
and I will cut him off from the midst of My people .
Then you shall know that I am the LORD .
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And if the prophet is induced to speak anything ,
I the LORD have induced that prophet ,
and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel .
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And they shall bear their iniquity ;
the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired ,
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that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me ,
nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions ,
but that they may be My people and I may be their God ,"
says the Lord GOD ."'
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The word of the LORD came again to me ,
saying :
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Son of man ,
when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness ,
I will stretch out My hand against it ;
I will cut off its supply of bread ,
send famine on it ,
and cut off man and beast from it .
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Even if these three men ,
Noah ,
Daniel ,
and Job ,
were in it ,
they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land ,
and they empty it ,
and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts ,
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even though these three men were in it ,
as I live ,"
says the Lord GOD , "
they would deliver neither sons nor daughters ;
only they would be delivered ,
and the land would be desolate .
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Or if I bring a sword on that land ,
and say , "
Sword ,
go through the land ,'
and I cut off man and beast from it ,
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even though these three men were in it ,
as I live ,"
says the Lord GOD , "
they would deliver neither sons nor daughters ,
but only they themselves would be delivered .
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Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood ,
and cut off from it man and beast ,
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even though Noah ,
Daniel ,
and Job were in it ,
as I live ,"
says the Lord GOD , "
they would deliver neither son nor daughter ;
they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness ."
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For thus says the Lord GOD : "
How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem--the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence--to cut off man and beast from it ?
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Yet behold ,
there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out ,
both sons and daughters ;
surely they will come out to you ,
and you will see their ways and their doings .
Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem ,
all that I have brought upon it .
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And they will comfort you ,
when you see their ways and their doings ;
and you shall know that I have done nothing without cause that I have done in it ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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Then the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying :