Against False Prophets

¹The word of the Lord came to me: ²O mortal, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy; say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord! ³Thus said the Lord God: Woe to the degenerate prophets, who follow their own fancy, without having had a vision! [ . . . ] ⁶They prophesied falsehood and lying divination; they said, “Declares the Lord,” when the Lord did not send them, and then they waited for their word to be fulfilled. ⁷It was false visions you prophesied and lying divination you uttered, saying, “Declares the Lord,” when I had not spoken.

⁸Assuredly, thus said the Lord God: Because you speak falsehood and prophesy lies, assuredly, I will deal with you—declares the Lord God. ⁹My hand will be against the prophets who prophesy falsehood and utter lying divination. They shall not remain in the assembly of My people, they shall not be inscribed in the lists of the House of Israel, and they shall not come back to the land of Israel. Thus shall you know that I am the Lord God.

¹⁰Inasmuch as they have misled My people, saying, “It is well,” when nothing is well, daubing with plaster the flimsy wall which the people were building, ¹¹say to those daubers of plaster: It shall collapse; a driving rain shall descend—and you, O great hailstones, shall fall— and a hurricane wind shall rend it. ¹²Then, when the wall collapses, you will be asked, “What became of the plaster you daubed on?”

¹³Assuredly, thus said the Lord God: In My fury I will let loose hurricane winds; in My anger a driving rain shall descend, and great hailstones in destructive fury. ¹⁴I will throw down the wall that you daubed with plaster, and I will raze it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed; and when it falls, you shall perish in its midst; then you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁵And when I have spent My fury upon the wall and upon those who daubed it with plaster, I will say to you: Gone is the wall and gone are its daubers, ¹⁶the prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem and see a vision of well-being for her when there is no wellbeing—declares the Lord God.