Zechariah 10:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

1 Kings 22:17

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’ ”

Job 13:4

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

Job 21:34

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:5

“To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 14:13

Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

Jeremiah 23:17

They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:10

For it is a lie which they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

Jeremiah 27:14

Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you.

Jeremiah 27:9

So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’

Jeremiah 28:15

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

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,

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’?

Jeremiah 50:17

“Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

Jeremiah 51:23

with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 8:11

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

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 for you oracles false and misleading.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.

Ezekiel 21:29

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to be laid on the necks of the unhallowed wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

Ezekiel 34:5

So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live, says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep;

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Micah 2:12

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

Zechariah 11:17

Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

Numbers 27:17

who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Mark 6:34

As he went ashore he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

Deuteronomy 13:2

and the sign or wonder which he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish said to their brethren, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”