Zechariah 10:2

New American Bible - revised edition

For the teraphim have spoken nonsense, the diviners have seen false visions; Deceitful dreams they have told, empty comfort they have offered. This is why they wandered like sheep, wretched, for they have no shepherd.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

1 Kings 22:17

So Micaiah said: “I see all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd, And the Lord saying, These have no master! Let each of them go back home in peace.”

Job 13:4

But you gloss over falsehoods, you are worthless physicians, every one of you!

Job 21:34

How empty the consolation you offer me! Your arguments remain a fraud.

Isaiah 41:29

Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols, empty wind!

Isaiah 44:25

I bring to nought the omens of babblers, make fools of diviners, Turn back the wise and make their knowledge foolish.

Isaiah 44:9

Those who fashion idols are all nothing; their precious works are of no avail. They are their witnesses: they see nothing, know nothing, and so they are put to shame.

Isaiah 46:5

To whom would you liken me as an equal, compare me, as though we were alike?

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 14:13

“Ah! Lord God,” I replied, “it is the prophets who say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword; famine shall not befall you. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Jeremiah 23:17

They say to those who despise the word of the Lord, “Peace shall be yours”; And to everyone who walks in hardness of heart, “No evil shall overtake you.”

Jeremiah 23:32

Yes, I am against the prophets who tell lying dreams—oracle of the Lord—those who lead my people astray by recounting their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them; they do this people no good at all—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:10

For they prophesy lies to you, so as to drive you far from your land, making me banish you so that you perish.

Jeremiah 27:14

Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, “Do not serve the king of Babylon.” They prophesy lies to you!

Jeremiah 27:9

You, however, must not listen to your prophets, to your diviners and dreamers, to your soothsayers and sorcerers, who say to you, “Do not serve the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 28:15

And Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet: Listen to this, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, and you have led this people to rely on deception.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners who are among you; do not listen to those among you who dream dreams,

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your own prophets who prophesied for you, saying: ‘The King of Babylon will not attack you or this land’?

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 51:23

With you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and team, with you I shatter governors and officers.

Jeremiah 6:14

They have treated lightly the injury to my people: “Peace, peace!” they say, though there is no peace.

Jeremiah 8:11

They have treated lightly the injury to the daughter of my people: “Peace, peace!” they say, though there is no peace.

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets provided you visions of whitewashed illusion; They did not lay bare your guilt, in order to restore your fortunes; They saw for you only oracles of empty deceit.

Ezekiel 21:21

Slash to the right! turn to the left, Wherever your edge is directed!

Ezekiel 21:29

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because your guilt has been exposed, your crimes laid bare, your sinfulness revealed in all your deeds—because you have been exposed, you shall be taken in hand.

Ezekiel 34:5

So they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and became food for all the wild beasts. They were scattered

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—because my sheep became plunder, because my sheep became food for wild beasts, for lack of a shepherd, because my shepherds did not look after my sheep, but pastured themselves and did not pasture my sheep,

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household gods.

Micah 2:12

I will gather you, Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in its pasture; the noise of the people will resound.

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Zechariah 11:17

Ah! my worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; His arm will surely wither, and his right eye surely go blind!

Numbers 27:17

who will be their leader in battle and who will lead them out and bring them in, that the Lord’s community may not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Matthew 9:36

At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.

Mark 6:34

When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

Deuteronomy 13:2

If there arises in your midst a prophet or a dreamer who promises you a sign or wonder,

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to reconnoiter the land spoke up and said to their kindred, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, and an idol overlaid with silver? Now decide what you must do!”