Ezekiel 13:8–16

13:8 “ ‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look,5 I am against you,6 declares the sovereign Lord. 13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council7 of my people, nor be written in the registry8 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

13:10 “ ‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,”9 when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar,10 they coat it with whitewash. 13:11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones11 will fall and a violent wind will break out.12 13:12 When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

13:13 “ ‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury. 13:14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,13 and you will know that I am the Lord. 13:15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more—13:16 those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem14 and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the sovereign Lord.’