2 “Son of man, prophesy aagainst the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to bthose who prophesy out of their own cheart, ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’ ”
3 Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen1 nothing!
4 O Israel, your prophets are alike foxes in the deserts.
5 You ahave not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
6aThey have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has bnot sent them; yet they hope that the word may1 be confirmed.
7 Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God.
9 “My hand will be aagainst the prophets who envision futility and who bdivine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, cnor be written in the record of the house of Israel, dnor shall they enter into the land of Israel. eThen you shall know that I am the Lord God.
10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, a‘Peace!’ when thereis no peace—and one builds a wall, and they bplaster it with untempered mortar—
11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. aThere will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.
12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”
that prophesy—namely, a speedy return to Jerusalem.
out of . . . own hearts—alluding to the words of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 23:16, Jeremiah 23:26); that is, what they prophesied was what they and the people wished; the wish was father to the thought. The people wished to be deceived, and so were deceived. They were inexcusable, for they had among them true prophets (who spoke not their own thoughts, but as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, II Peter 1:21), whom they might have known to be such, but they did not wish to know (John 3:19).
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