KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 13
The reproof of lying prophets.
1And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy. And say to those who prophesy out of their own heart; hear the Word of Jehovah:
3So says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the foolish prophets who walk after their own spirit and have seen nothing!
4O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts.
5You have not gone up into the breaks, and wall up a wall around the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle, in the day of Jehovah.
6They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, a statement of Jehovah! And Jehovah has not sent them, but they hoped to lift their word.
7Did you not see a vain vision and speak a lying divination? Yet you say, A statement of Jehovah, though I have not spoken.
8So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have spoken vanity and have seen a lie, therefore, behold, I am against you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
9And My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity, and who divine a lie. They shall not be in the assembly of My people, and they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
10Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace! and there was no peace. And he builds a wall, and, behold, others daubed it with lime.
11Say to those daubing with lime, Yea, it will fall. There will be a flooding rain; and you, O stones of hail, shall fall, and a tempestuous wind shall break.
12And, behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you have daubed?
13So the Lord Jehovah says this: I will even break in My fury with a tempestuous wind. And there shall be an overflowing rain in My anger, and stones of hail in My fury, to consume it.
14And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with lime and strike it down to the ground; yea, I will bare its base, and it shall fall, and you will be consumed in its midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
15And I will complete My wrath in the wall, and in those who daubed it with lime. And I will say to you, The wall is not; and, Those who daubed are not.
16The prophets of Israel who are prophesying concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
17And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their heart, and prophesy against them,
18and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sewing amulets to all joints of my hands, and make long veils for the head of every man of stature, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and will you save alive the souls for yourselves?
19And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley, and for bits of bread, to cause to die the souls that should not die, and to save alive the souls that should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?
20So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I am against your amulets with which you are hunting the souls there, to make them fly. And I will tear them from your arms, and will send out the souls, souls which you are hunting, to make them fly.
21And I will tear your long veils and deliver My people out of your hand. And they shall not again be in your hand to be hunted. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
22Because you have saddened the heart of the righteous one with lies, and I have not pained him, and you have made the hands of the wicked one strong, so that he should not turn from his evil way, to keep him alive.
23Therefore you shall not see vanity, and you shall not divine any divination. And I will deliver My people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
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