Moff EZE Chapter 13

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13 "I This word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and give them this prophetic word from the Eternal. 3 The Lord the Eternal declares: Woe to the fools of prophets who only prophesy from what they feel, without a real vision! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like jackals burrowing among the ruins! 5 You prophets never man the breach, you never build walls for the folk of Israel, to make a stand upon the day when the Eternal summons to the fray. 6 Yours are false visions, lying oracles! You give ‘the word of the Eternal,’ and the Eternal never sent you! And you expect your words to be fulfilled! 7 To cry ‘the word of the Eternal,’ when the Eternal has not spoken, is this not a vain vision, a lying oracle of yours? 8 Therefore the Lord the Eternal proclaims: because your words are vain, your visions false, I am against you, says the Lord the Eternal; 9 my hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying oracles. They shall have no place in the council of my people, they shall not be on the register of Israel, they shall not be allowed inside the land of Israel--it will teach you that I am the Eternal.

10 Since they mislead my people by saying ‘All is well,’ when all is not well, since these daubers whitewash any flimsy wall run up to safe-guard the people, 11 tell such daubers that a deluge of rain is coming, huge hail-stones shall come down, and a stormy blast shall break out, till down falls the flimsy wall; 12 and then you will be asked, will you not, ‘What about your whitewash?’ 13 The Lord the Eternal proclaims: I will let loose a stormy blast in my wrath, a deluge of rain in my anger, and hail-stones in my fury, 14 destroying the wall you daubed with your whitewash, demolishing it till its very foundations are laid bare; the wall shall fall, and crush you under it--to let you know that I am the Eternal. 15 This will satisfy my wrath against the wall and those who daubed it with their whitewash. You will be asked, ‘Where is the wall? Where are those who daubed it?-- 16 these prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem with their visions of “All is well” for her, when all is not well!’ The Lord the Eternal has spoken.

17 Son of man, face the women of your country who only prophesy from what they feel; 18 give them this prophetic word from the Lord Eternal: ‘Woe to the women who tie amulets on anyone’s wrist and mantle folk of every height in veils, to get hold of human souls! You would get hold of human souls among my people, to make a profit from your trade? 19 You are degrading me among my people for a handful of barley and some bread from your clients; you cheat my people, and they believe your cheats--your spells invoking death on honest folk and promising life to the dishonest! 20 Therefore the Lord the Eternal declares: I am against these amulets you use to snare poor human souls; I will strip them off and let the souls go free whom you would fain control; 21 I will tear off your veils and rescue my people from your sway--to let you know that I am the Eternal. 22 Since your cheats and spells have dismayed honest folk whom I never dismayed, and encouraged the dishonest, till they would not give up their evil life and be saved, 23 there shall be an end to your vain visions and incantations; I will rescue my people from your sway--to let you know that I am the Eternal.’ ”

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