Ezekiel 13:3
Good News Translation
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the Lord GOD, Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD God, say those lying prophets are doomed! They don't see visions--they make up their own messages!

New American Bible
Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to those prophets, the fools who follow their own spirit and see nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.

Woe

Ezekiel 13:18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew cushions under every elbow: and make pillows for the heads of persons of every age to catch souls: and when they caught the souls of my people, they gave life to their souls.

Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?

Jeremiah 23:1 Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

Matthew 23:13-29 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. . . .

Luke 11:42-47,52 But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

foolish

Proverbs 15:2,14 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly. . . .

Lamentations 2:14 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Zechariah 11:15 And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Matthew 23:16-26 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

Luke 11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within?

1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:9 But they shall proceed no farther: for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.

follow [heb] walk after

Ezekiel 13:6,7 They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said. . . .

Jeremiah 23:28-32 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord? . . .

Context
The Reproof of False Prophets
2Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel that prophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy out of their own heart: Hear ye the word of the Lord: 3Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.4Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:1
Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:16
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Jeremiah 28:15
And Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

Lamentations 2:14
Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Ezekiel 13:4
Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Zechariah 11:15
And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Ezekiel 13:2
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