1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!
3. This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
4. Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.
5. You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
6. They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
7. Didn’t you see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you proclaimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ even though I had not spoken?