“Now you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are talking like prophets from their own imagination. Prophesy against them
Parallel translations
- WEB You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
- KJV Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
- BSB Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them
- NKJV “Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,
- NLT “Now, son of man, speak out against the women who prophesy from their own imaginations.
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God now directs Ezekiel to prophesy against the women who prophesy out of their own imagination.
Overview
The oracle turns from the false male prophets to false prophetesses practicing a corrupt, magical religion. Like the men, they speak from their own hearts rather than from God. It shows that false prophecy is condemned regardless of who practices it.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ezek 13:2“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
- 2 Kgs 22:14So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
- Rev 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
- Judg 4:4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
- Luke 2:36There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
- Isa 4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
- Isa 3:16–26Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
- Ezek 4:3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it. It shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezek 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
- 2 Pet 2:1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
- Ezek 21:2“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
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