Ezekiel 13:12
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Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’
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Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.