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Ezekiel 13

13 Yahweh gave me another message. He said, 2 “Mortal human, speak my prophetic messages against those Israelite prophets who speak authoritatively to the people. Some of them tell people things that they have contrived as if I said them! Tell them: ‘Listen to what Yahweh really says! 3 Here is what the Sovereign Yahweh has to say to you: How terrible it will be for those senseless prophets who authoritatively speak like my prophet but only heed their own ideas without having received any messages from me! 4 Israelite people, the prophets who advise you and speak to you have become useless and predatory—like ravenous jackals that scavenge among the ruins of a city. 5 Like masons who fail to repair the cracks in deteriorating defensive walls, you prophets have done nothing to protect your people! You have not prepared the Israelite people to survive the coming destruction that will occur when I, Yahweh, besiege and destroy Jerusalem! 6 The messages that these prophets purport to have received from me are deceitful and fraudulent! Every divine insight they provide is nothing but a lie! Sure, they claim, “This is what Yahweh has declared.” Yet, I did not send them to you! Nevertheless, they fully expect that their contrived prophetic declarations will happen! 7 Isn’t this true? You prophets purport to have received prophetic messages from me, but they are deceitful and fraudulent! You prophets claim to provide divine insight, but it is all lies! You prophets claim, “This is what Yahweh has declared,” but I never spoke to you!

8 So, here is what the Lord Yahweh has to say: You prophets have only spoken deceitfully and fraudulently! You have lied when you reported messages that you said came from me! Consequently, pay attention! I am now your enemy. That is what I, the Sovereign Yahweh, declare. 9 I will work against you prophets who deceitfully and fraudulently claim to receive messages from me and who falsely claim to provide divine insight.

You will no longer be a part of the community of my people, Israel.

No one will record your names in the civil register of the Israelite people,

nor will you ever return to the territories of Israel.

When all this happens, you false prophets will finally understand

exactly who I am and what I am like—I am the Sovereign Yahweh!

10 I am the enemy of these false prophets principally because they intentionally deceive my people, Israel, by proclaiming, “Everything is well!” when nothing is well! It is as though the Israelite officials have built a rickety wall without the proper mortar. Then, rather than expose the faults in the walls that the officials have poorly constructed, these false prophets daub the rickety wall with white plaster to make it look stable. 11 Tell those prophets—the ones who, by falsely declaring that all is well, daub the Israelite official’s rickety wall with white plaster—that their wall will soon collapse! It will fall apart under the strain of the flooding rainstorms, the falling hailstones, and the violent windstorms that I, Yahweh, am about to unleash! 12 When your wall collapses, people will surely ask you, false prophets, “What happened to the white plaster that you daubed on it?”

13 So here is what the Sovereign Yahweh has to say to you, false prophets: I am angrily unleashing violent windstorms, furiously unloading flooding rainstorms, and irately dispatching falling hailstones to obliterate that rickety wall. 14 I will raze the wall that you daubed with plaster. I will level it to the ground so that everyone can see its foundation. It will collapse, and you will die alongside it. When all this happens, you false prophets will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh! 15 That is how I will vent my anger against the Israelite officials’ wall and against those false prophets who daubed it with white plaster. At that time, I will say to you, “Your wall is gone, and so are those who daubed it with plaster—16 those false Israelite prophets who proclaim authoritative prophetic messages about the citizens of Jerusalem and claim to receive divine declarations from me that all would be well for the city, when nothing will be well!” That is what I, the Sovereign Yahweh, declare.’

17 Now, mortal human, turn toward the Israelite women who feign to speak authoritatively to the people. Some of these women tell people things that they have contrived as if I said them! Declare my prophetic messages against them. 18 Tell them, ‘Here is what the Lord Yahweh has to say: How terrible it will be for you women who manufacture magic bands to fasten on people’s wrists, who craft magic talismans that you encourage people of all sizes to wear over their heads! You do these things not to help people but to ensnare and harm them! Yes, you attempt to ensnare my people, Israel, and harm them. But I will ensnare and harm you! 19 You have debased me in my people’s perceptions—and all in exchange for a few handfuls of barley and a few scraps of bread! By lying to my people, who heed your lies, you have murdered people who should not have died, and you have rescued people who should not have lived.

20 So, here is what the Sovereign Yahweh has to say: Witness me! I am now an enemy to your magic bands, which you use to ensnare people as though they were birds. I will rip those magic bands off your forearms, and I will release the people whom you attempt to ensnare and harm like birds. 21 I will also rip off your magic talismans and thereby deliver my people, Israel, from your control. No longer will you dominate and harm them, as though they were birds that you hunted for sport. Then, you false prophetesses will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am the Sovereign Yahweh! 22 You have demoralized honest and integrous people by lying to them—even though I myself did nothing to cause them emotional pain! You have also encouraged dishonest and immoral people! As a result, these people did not stop their corrupt behavior—or else they would have stayed alive. Because of these actions, 23 you will no longer claim to receive deceitful and fraudulent messages from me or provide divine insight to people! Instead, I will deliver my people, Israel, from your control. Then, when all this happens, you false prophetesses will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh!.’ ”

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