Ezekiel 22:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Its prophets have smeared whitewash on their behalf, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” when the Lord has not spoken.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

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.

Jeremiah 28:2

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

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 13:2

Mortal, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying; say to those who prophesy out of their own imaginations: “Hear the word of the Lord!”

Ezekiel 21:29

Offering false visions for you, divining lies for you, they place you over the necks of the vile, wicked ones— those whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred; they have done violence to the law.