Catholic Public Domain Version
"Your prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts. "
— Ezekiel 13:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.”
“O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. ”
“Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.”
“Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel.”
“Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.”
“O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.”
“O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.”
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
“Son of man, prophesy to the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and you shall say to those who prophesy from their own heart: Hear the word of the Lord:
Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets, who are following their own spirit, and who see nothing.
Your prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.
You have not gone up against the adversary, and you have not established a wall for the house of Israel, so as to stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
They see emptiness, and they foretell falsehoods, saying, ‘The Lord says,’ though the Lord has not sent them. And they continued to affirm what they said.
Have you not seen a futile vision and spoken a lying divination? And yet you say, ‘The Lord says,’ though I have not spoken.