The Lord of hosts, God of Israel, saith these things, Your prophets, that be in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you not; and take ye none heed to your dreams, which ye dream;
prophets prophesied leasing, and priests joyed with their hands, and my people loved such things. What therefore shall be done in the last thing thereof?
I would that I were not a man having spirit, and rather that I spake a leasing. I shall drop a word to thee into wine, and into drunkenness; and this people shall be, on whom it is dropped.
And the lord praised the bailiff [or the farmer] of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light.
For time shall be, when men shall not suffer [or not sustain] whole-some teaching, but at their desires they shall gather together to themselves masters itching [or pleasing] to the ears.
And that dragon was cast down, the great old serpent, that is called the Devil, and Satan, that deceiveth all the world; he was cast down into the earth, and his angels were sent with him.