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Ezekiel 13:3

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I, the LORD God, say those lying prophets are doomed! They don't see visions--they make up their own messages!

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Anyone with good sense is eager to learn more, but fools are hungry for foolishness.

Words of wisdom come from the wise, but fools speak foolishness.

You leaders of my people are like shepherds that kill and scatter the sheep.

Don't listen to the lies of these false prophets, you people of Judah! The message they preach is something they imagined; it did not come from me, the LORD All-Powerful.

When I think of the prophets, I am shocked, and I tremble like someone drunk, because of the LORD and his sacred words.

Hananiah, I have never sent you to speak for me. And yet you have talked my people into believing your lies and rebelling against me. So now I will send you--I'll send you right off the face of the earth! You will die before this year is over.

Your prophets deceived you with false visions and lying messages-- they should have warned you to leave your sins and be saved from disaster.

Tell them they're doomed! They wear magic charms on their wrists and scarves on their heads, then trick others into believing they can predict the future. They won't get away with telling those lies.

Israel's prophets are no better than jackals that hunt for food among the ruins of a city.

Ezekiel, son of man, Israel's leaders are like shepherds taking care of my sheep, the people of Israel. But I want you to condemn these leaders and tell them: I, the LORD God, say you shepherds of Israel are doomed! You take care of yourselves while ignoring my sheep.

Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. "Prophets are fools," you say. "And God's messengers are crazy." Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Next, the LORD said to me, "Act like a shepherd again--this time a worthless shepherd.

You fools! Didn't God make both the outside and the inside?

You teachers of the Law of Moses are really in for trouble! You carry the keys to the door of knowledge about God. But you never go in, and you keep others from going in.

I don't have any reason to brag about preaching the good news. Preaching is something God told me to do, and if I don't do it, I am doomed.

Those people who disagree are proud of themselves, but they don't really know a thing. Their minds are sick, and they like to argue over words. They cause jealousy, disagreements, unkind words, evil suspicions,

But they won't get very far with their foolishness. Soon everyone will know the truth about them, just as Jannes and Jambres were found out.




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