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.
11. Tell the prophets that their wall is going to fall down. I will send a pouring rain. Hailstones will fall on it, and a strong wind will blow against it.
12. The wall will collapse, and everyone will ask you what good the whitewash did.”
13. Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “In my anger I will send a strong wind, pouring rain, and hailstones to destroy the wall.
14. I intend to break down the wall they whitewashed, to shatter it, and to leave the foundation stones bare. It will collapse and kill you all. Then everyone will know that I am the Lord.
15. “The wall and those who covered it with whitewash will feel the force of my anger. Then I will tell you that the wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it —
16. those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.