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1071 Prophetesses of falsehood denounced EZEKIEL 13:8-22
ance of Jehovah is,’ when I myself
have spoken nothing?” ’ a
8 “‘Therefore this is what the
Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said:
“‘For the reason that YOU men
have spoken untruth and YOU
have visioned a lie, therefore here
I am against YOU,’ b is the utterance
of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.”
9 Andmyhandhascome
to be against the prophets that
are visioning untruth and that
are divining a lie. c In the intimate
d group of my people they
will not continue on, and in the
register of the house of Israel
they will not be written, e and to
the soil of Israel they will not
come; f and YOU people will have
to know that I am the Sovereign
Lord Jehovah, g 10 for the reason,
yes, for the reason that they
have led my people astray, saying,
“There is peace!” when there
is no peace, h and there is one
that is building a partition wall,
but in vain i there are those plastering
it with whitewash.’ j
11 “Say to those plastering
with whitewash that it will fall. A
flooding downpour will certainly
occur, and YOU, O hailstones, will
fall, and a blast of windstorms itself
will cause a splitting. k
12 And, look! the wall must fall.
Will it not be said to YOU men,
‘Where is the coating with which
YOU did the plastering?’ l
13 “Therefore this is what the
Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said,
‘I will also cause a blast of windstorms
to burst forth in my rage,
and in my anger there will occur
a flooding downpour, and in
rage there will be hailstones
for an extermination. m 14 And
I will tear down the wall that YOU
men have plastered with whitewash
and bring it into contact
with the earth, and its foundation
must be exposed. n And she
will certainly fall, and YOU must
come to an end in the midst of
her; and YOU will have to know
that I am Jehovah.’ o
CHAP. 13
a 2Pe 2:1
b Eze 21:3
Eze 22:28
c Jer 14:14
Jer 28:16
Jer 29:9
d Ps 111:1
e Ex 32:32
Ne 7:5
Ps 69:28
f Eze 20:38
g Eze 6:13
Eze 11:10
h Isa 57:21
Jer 6:14
Jer 8:11
i Ps 127:1
j 2Ch 18:12
Isa 30:10
Eze 22:28
k Isa 25:4
Isa 27:8
Eze 38:22
l Jer 37:19
m Hag 2:17
n Mic 1:6
Mt 7:27
o Eze 14:8
Second Col.
a Isa 30:13
b Jer 6:14
Jer 28:9
c Isa 48:22
d Eze 20:46
Eze 21:2
e Ex 15:20
2Ki 22:14
Lu 2:36
f Re 2:20
g Eze 22:25
2Pe 2:14
h Pr 28:21
Mic 3:11
i 1Ki 21:15
j Jer 23:14
Lu 6:26
k Ho 9:8
l Ps 9:16
Eze 6:13
15 “ ‘And I will bring my rage
to its finish upon the wall and
upon those plastering it with
whitewash, and I shall say to YOU
men: “The wall is no more, and
those plastering it are no more, a
16 the prophets of Israel that are
prophesying to Jerusalem and
that are visioning for her a vision
of peace, b when there is no
peace,” ’ is the utterance of the
Sovereign Lord Jehovah. c
17 “And as for you, O son of
man, set your face d against the
daughters of your people who
are acting as prophetesses e out
of their own heart, f and prophesy
against them. 18 And you
must say, ‘This is what the Sovereign
Lord Jehovah has said:
“Woe to the women sewing bands
together upon all elbows and
making veils upon the head of
every size in order to hunt souls! g
Are the souls that YOU women
hunt down the ones belonging
to my people, and the souls belonging
to YOU the ones that YOU
preserve alive? 19 And will YOU
profane me toward my people for
the handfuls of barley and for the
morsels of bread, h in order to put
to death the souls that ought not
to die i and in order to preserve
alive the souls that ought not to
live by YOUR lie to my people, the
hearers of a lie?” ’ j
20 “Therefore this is what the
Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said,
‘Here I am against the bands of
YOU women, with which YOU
are hunting down the souls as
though they were flying things,
and I will rip them from off YOUR
arms and let go the souls that
YOU are hunting down, souls as
though they were flying things. k
21 And I will rip away YOUR veils
and deliver my people out of
YOUR hand, and they will no more
prove to be in YOUR hand something
caught in the hunt; and
YOU will have to know that I am
Jehovah. l 22 By reason of dejecting
the heart of a righteous