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Ezekiel 13 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Yahweh’s Wrath Against Lying Prophets

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Then the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own heart, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3 - ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the wickedly foolish prophets who are walking after their own spirit and have seen nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste places.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:5 - “You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - “They behold worthlessness and lying divination who are saying, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when Yahweh has not sent them; yet they wait for the establishing of their word.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - “Did you not see a worthless vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘Yahweh declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
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Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because you have spoken worthlessness and beheld a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - “So My hand will be against the prophets who see worthless visions and utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, [fn]that you may know that I am Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:10 - “It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:11 - so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a stormy wind will break out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:12 - “Now behold, the wall will fall. Will it then not be said to you, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will make a stormy wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14 - “So I will pull down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15 - “Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, ‘The wall [fn]is gone, and its plasterers are gone
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares Lord Yahweh.
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“Now as for you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their own heart. Prophesy against them

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on [fn]all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down [fn]souls! Will you hunt down My people’s souls, but preserve your own souls?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:19 - “For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death souls who should not die and to keep other souls alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”
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Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt souls there as [fn]birds, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let their souls go, the very souls whom you hunt as [fn]birds.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:21 - “I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - “Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have strengthened the hands of the wicked not to turn from his evil way and preserve his life,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore, you women will no longer see worthless visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”
LSB Footnotes
Or and you will know
Lit is not...are not
Lit all joints of the hand; M.T. of my hands
Or lives, so in ch
Or flying ones
Or flying ones
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