Ezekiel 13:6-16

Their visions are phony and their prophecies of what is coming are lies. They say, “YAHWEH says,” when I, YAHWEH, did not send them with my message, and yet they actually expect me to fulfill their words! Have you not seen false visions and prophesied false prophecies of the future? You declare: “This is what YAHWEH says,” when I had not spoken. “ ‘Therefore, Lord YAHWEH says to you: Because you have spoken your false prophecies and lying visions, behold, I am against you, says Lord YAHWEH. I will punish the false prophets who see false visions and speak lies about what they see coming in the future. They will no longer belong to my council of elders, nor will their names be inscribed in the register of the people of Israel, nor will they ever return to the land of Israel. And then the people will know for sure that I am Lord YAHWEH! “ ‘For in truth, they have gravely misled my people, saying, “Everything is fine,” when devastation is at hand. When the false build a “wall of words” they cover it with the whitewash of their lies. Prophesy to those who do so that their wall will fall! For I will send a stormy wind that will break loose with a deluge of rain and great hailstones. And down will come the wall! When it crumbles, will not the people say to you, “Where’s that whitewashed wall of yours now?” “ ‘Therefore this is what I, Lord YAHWEH, say to you: My anger will break forth as a windstorm and my wrath will break loose like a torrential rain, and I will send great hailstones to destroy your wall! Yes, I will level this plastered wall to the ground and lay bare its flimsy foundation. And when it crumbles, you, too, will crumble and perish. And then you will realize that I am YAHWEH! “ ‘For then my wrath will be spent against the wall and upon those who have smeared it with plaster. And I will say to you, “The wall is gone, and so are those who smeared plaster over it. Those prophets of Israel who prophesied that Jerusalem would be fine, when devastation was near, will be no more!” For I, Lord YAHWEH, have spoken.’ ”