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Ezekiel 13:3
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KJ21
Thus saith the Lord God: Woe unto the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
ASV
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
AMP
Thus says the Lord God, “Woe (judgment is coming) to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit [claiming to have seen things] but have [in fact] seen nothing.
AMPC
Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit [and things they have not seen] and have seen nothing!
BRG
Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
CSB
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
CSBA
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
CEB
The Lord God proclaims: Doom to the foolish prophets who follow their own whims but see nothing.
CJB
Adonai Elohim says: “Woe to the vile prophets who follow their own spirits and things which they have not seen!
CEV
I, the Lord God, say those lying prophets are doomed! They don't see visions—they make up their own messages!
DARBY
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
DRA
Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.
ERV
This is what the Lord God says. Bad things will happen to you foolish prophets. You are following your own spirits. You are not telling people what you really see in visions.
EASY
This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to those foolish prophets. They have not seen any vision from me but they tell people their own ideas.
EHV
This is what the Lord God says. Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and prophesy things which they have not seen.
ESV
Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
ESVUK
Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
EXB
This is what the Lord God says: ·How terrible it will be for [L Woe to] the foolish prophets who follow their own ·ideas [L spirit] and have ·not seen a vision from me [L seen nothing]!
GNV
Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the foolish Prophets that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing.
GW
“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: How horrible it will be for the foolish prophets. They follow their own ideas, and they have seen nothing.
GNT
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.
HCSB
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
ICB
This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for the foolish prophets. They are the ones who follow their own ideas. And they have not seen a vision from me.
ISV
“This is what the Lord God says, ‘How terrible it will be for the false prophets who walk according to their own wrong inclinations and see nothing.
JUB
thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
KJV
Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
AKJV
thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
LSB
Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the wickedly foolish prophets who are walking after their own spirit and have seen nothing.
LEB
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Alas, for the foolish prophets who are going after their own spirit, and they did not see anything!
TLB
“Son of dust, prophesy against the false prophets of Israel who are inventing their own visions and claiming to have messages from me when I have never told them anything at all. Woe upon them!
MSG
God’s Message came to me: “Son of man, preach against the prophets of Israel who are making things up out of their own heads and calling it ‘prophesying.’ “Preach to them the real thing. Tell them, ‘Listen to God’s Message!’ God, the Master, pronounces doom on the empty-headed prophets who do their own thing and know nothing of what’s going on! Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals scavenging through the ruins. They haven’t lifted a finger to repair the defenses of the city and have risked nothing to help Israel stand on God’s Day of Judgment. All they do is fantasize comforting illusions and preach lying sermons. They say ‘God says . . .’ when God hasn’t so much as breathed in their direction. And yet they stand around thinking that something they said is going to happen.
MEV
Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
NOG
“‘This is what Adonay Yahweh says: How horrible it will be for the foolish prophets. They follow their own ideas, and they have seen nothing.
NABRE
Thus says the Lord God: Woe to those prophets, the fools who follow their own spirit and see nothing.
NASB
This is what the Lord God says: “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing!
NASB1995
Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.
NCB
Thus says the Lord God: Disaster will engulf those foolish prophets who follow thoughts that are fabricated in their own imaginations and have received no visions.
NCV
This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for the foolish prophets who follow their own ideas and have not seen a vision from me!
NET
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!
NIRV
The Lord and King says, “How terrible it will be for you foolish prophets! You say what your own minds tell you to. Your visions do not come from me.
NIV
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
NIVUK
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
NKJV
Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
NLV
The Lord God says, “It is bad for the foolish people who tell what is going to happen by following their own spirit and have seen nothing.
NLT
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits the false prophets who are following their own imaginations and have seen nothing at all!’
NRSVA
Thus says the Lord God, Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
NRSVACE
Thus says the Lord God, Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
NRSVCE
Thus says the Lord God, Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
NRSVUE
Thus says the Lord God: Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
OJB
Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hoy (woe, doom) unto the foolish nevi’im, that follow their own ruach, and have seen nothing!
RGT
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
RSV
Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
RSVCE
Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
TLV
thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit—except they have seen nothing!
VOICE
The Eternal Lord says woe to those foolish prophets whose message is based on their own spirits and have not had a vision!
WEB
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
WYC
The Lord God saith these things, Woe to the unwise prophets, that follow their spirit, and see nothing; (The Lord God saith these things, Woe to the unwise prophets, who follow their own spirit, and so see nothing;)
YLT
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo unto the prophets who are foolish, Who are going after their own spirit, And they have seen nothing.
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