Ezekiel 13:3
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This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.
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The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?