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Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 13

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Ezekiel 13 NASB - New American Standard BibleEzekiel 13 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 13 of Ezekiel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,
  2. “Son of man, prophesy against the 1prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own [a]inspiration, ‘2Listen to the word of the LORD!
  3. Thus says the Lord [b]GOD, “Woe to the 3foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have 4seen nothing.
  4. O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.
  5. You have not 5gone up into the 6breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the 7day of the LORD.
  6. They see [c]8falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The LORD declares,’ when the LORD has not sent them; 9yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
  7. 10Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The LORD declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
  8. ¶ Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, “Because you have spoken [d]falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, 11I am against you,” declares the Lord GOD.
  9. “So My hand will be against the 12prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will [e]have no place in the council of My people, 13nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, [f]that you may know that I am the Lord GOD.
  10. It is definitely because they have 14misled My people by saying, ‘15Peace!’ when there is 16no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;
  11. so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A 17flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out.
  12. Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’”
  13. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, “I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and 18hailstones to consume it in wrath.
  14. So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its 19foundation is laid bare; and when it falls, you will be 20consumed in its midst. And you will 21know that I am the LORD.
  15. Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, ‘The wall [g]is gone and its plasterers are gone,
  16. along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who 22see visions of peace for her when there is 23no peace,’ declares the Lord GOD.
  17. ¶ “Now you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are 24prophesying 25from their own [h]inspiration. Prophesy against them
  18. and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on [i]all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to 26hunt down [j]lives! Will you hunt down the [k]lives of My people, but preserve the [l]lives of others for yourselves?
  19. 27For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death [m]some who should not die and to 28keep [n]others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”
  20. ¶ Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt [o]lives there as [p]birds and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let [q]them go, even those [r]lives whom you hunt as [s]birds.
  21. I will also tear off your veils and 29deliver My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am the LORD.
  22. Because you 30disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have [t]31encouraged the wicked not to 32turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,
  23. therefore, you women will no longer see [u]33false visions or practice divination, and I will 34deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will 35know that I am the LORD.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit heart
  2. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  3. ^ Lit vanity
  4. ^ Lit vanity
  5. ^ Lit not be in
  6. ^ Or and you will know
  7. ^ Lit is not...are not
  8. ^ Lit heart
  9. ^ Lit all joints of the hand; M.T. reads of my hands
  10. ^ Or souls
  11. ^ Or souls
  12. ^ Or souls
  13. ^ Or souls
  14. ^ Or souls
  15. ^ Lit souls
  16. ^ Or flying ones
  17. ^ Lit souls
  18. ^ Lit souls
  19. ^ Or flying ones
  20. ^ Lit strengthen the hands of
  21. ^ Lit vanity

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 9:15; Je 37:19; Eze 22:25, 28
  2. ^ Is 1:10; Am 7:16
  3. ^ La 2:14; Ho 9:7; Zc 11:15
  4. ^ Je 23:28-32
  5. ^ Ps 106:23; Je 23:22; Eze 22:30
  6. ^ Is 58:12
  7. ^ Is 13:6, 9; Eze 7:19
  8. ^ Je 29:8; Eze 22:28
  9. ^ Je 28:15; 37:19
  10. ^ Eze 22:28
  11. ^ Eze 5:8; 21:3; Na 2:13
  12. ^ Je 20:3-6; 28:15-17
  13. ^ Ps 69:28; 87:6; Je 17:13; Da 12:1
  14. ^ Je 23:32; 50:6
  15. ^ Je 6:14; 8:11; 14:13
  16. ^ Eze 7:25; 13:16
  17. ^ Eze 38:22
  18. ^ Ex 9:24, 25; Ps 18:12, 13; Is 30:30; Re 11:19; 16:21
  19. ^ Mc 1:6; Hab 3:13
  20. ^ Je 6:15; 14:15
  21. ^ Eze 13:9
  22. ^ Je 6:14; 8:11; Eze 13:10
  23. ^ Is 57:21
  24. ^ Jg 4:4; 2Ki 22:14; Lu 2:36; Ac 21:9
  25. ^ Eze 13:2; Re 2:20
  26. ^ 2Pe 2:14
  27. ^ Pr 28:21; Mc 3:5
  28. ^ Je 23:14, 17
  29. ^ Ps 91:3; 124:7
  30. ^ Am 5:12
  31. ^ Je 23:14; 34:16, 22
  32. ^ Eze 18:21, 27, 30-32; 33:14-16
  33. ^ Eze 12:24; 13:6; Mc 3:6; Zc 13:3
  34. ^ Eze 13:21; 34:10
  35. ^ Eze 13:9, 21

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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