1. The Lord spoke to me.
2. “Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the prophets of Israel who make up their own prophecies. Tell them to listen to the word of the Lord.”
3. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.
4. People of Israel, your prophets are as useless as foxes living among the ruins of a city.
5. They don't guard the places where the walls have crumbled, nor do they rebuild the walls, and so Israel cannot be defended when war comes on the day of the Lord.
6. Their visions are false, and their predictions are lies. They claim that they are speaking my message, but I have not sent them. Yet they expect their words to come true!
7. I tell them: those visions you see are false, and the predictions you make are lies. You say that they are my words, but I haven't spoken to you!”
8. So the Sovereign Lord says to them, “Your words are false, and your visions are lies. I am against you.
9. I am about to punish you prophets who have false visions and make misleading predictions. You will not be there when my people gather to make decisions; your names will not be included in the list of the citizens of Israel; you will never return to your land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
10. “The prophets mislead my people by saying that all is well. All is certainly not well! My people have put up a wall of loose stones, and then the prophets have come and covered it with whitewash.