﻿Ezekiel.
Chapter 13.
The word of the LORD came to me: 
“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy from their own hearts, ‘Hear the word of the LORD! 
This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 
Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. 
You have not gone up into the breaches or built a wall around the house of Israel so that it could stand in battle on the day of the LORD. 
They have seen falsehood and lying divination. They say, “The LORD declares,” though the LORD has not sent them, and they expect their word to be fulfilled. 
Have you not seen a false vision and spoken lying divination when you say, “The LORD declares,” though I have not spoken? 
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. 
My hand will be against the prophets who see falsehood and divine lies. They will not be in the council of my people, be inscribed in the register of the house of Israel, or enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD. 
Because, yes, because they have misled my people, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and when someone builds a wall, they coat it with whitewash, 
tell those who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain. You hailstones will fall, and a storm wind will tear it apart. 
When the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, “Where is the coating you applied?” 
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In my wrath I will unleash a storm wind. There will be torrential rain in my anger and hailstones in my wrath to destroy it. 
I will tear down the wall you coated with whitewash and bring it to the ground, exposing its foundation. It will fall, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
I will spend my wrath on the wall and on those who coated it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone, and those who coated it are gone— 
the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and see visions of peace for it when there is no peace,” declares the Lord GOD.’ 
As for you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own hearts. Prophesy against them 
and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew bands on all the joints of my arms and make veils for the heads of people of every height, to hunt lives! Will you hunt the lives of my people while keeping your own lives alive? 
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, killing those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live by lying to my people who listen to lies. 
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I am against your bands with which you hunt lives there like flying birds. I will tear them from your arms and set free the lives you hunt, those lives like flying birds. 
I will tear your veils and rescue my people from your hands. They will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
Because you have grieved the heart of the righteous with lies, though I have not grieved him, and have strengthened the hands of the wicked so that he does not turn from his evil way and save his life, 
therefore you will no longer see falsehood or practice divination. I will rescue my people from your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.’” 
