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10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
    prophesy illusions;(A)

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12 But you made the nazirites drink wine
    and commanded the prophets,
    saying, “You shall not prophesy.”(A)

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16 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
    and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’(A)

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Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without revelation.
The sun shall go down upon the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;(A)

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16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri[a]
    and all the works of the house of Ahab,
    and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your[b] inhabitants an object of hissing,
    so you shall bear the scorn of my people.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.16 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb the statutes of Omri are kept
  2. 6.16 Heb its