Ezekiel 13:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord God: Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Cross References

Proverbs 15:14

The mind of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me; all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 28:15

And the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you made this people trust in a lie.

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes but have seen oracles for you that are false and misleading.

Ezekiel 13:18

and say: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?

Ezekiel 13:4

Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.

Ezekiel 34:2

Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds—thus says the Lord God: Woe, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come. Israel will cry out, “The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.

Zechariah 11:15

Then the Lord said to me: “Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.

Luke 11:40

You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

1 Corinthians 9:16

If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!

1 Timothy 6:4

is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:9

But they will not make much progress because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.