False Prophets

¹³ But, “Ah, Lord ^[a]God!” I said, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You ^(A)will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you ^[b]lasting ^(B)peace in this place.’” ¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me, “The ^(C)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. ^(D)I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a ^(E)false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own ^[c]minds. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—^(F)by sword and famine those prophets shall ^[d]meet their end! ¹⁶ The people also to whom they are prophesying will be ^(G)thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to ^(H)bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will ^(I)pour out their own wickedness on them.

⁶ They see ^[a](A)falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; ^(B)yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.

²³ therefore, you women will no longer see ^[a](A)false visions or practice divination, and I will ^(B)deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will ^(C)know that I am the Lord.”

² “It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I will ^(A)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the ^(B)prophets and the ^(C)unclean spirit from the land. ³ And if anyone still ^(D)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(E)not live, for you have spoken ^(F)falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his ^(G)father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. ⁴ Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ^(H)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(I)hairy robe in order to deceive;