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• Lamentations 4:13 OT

  It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

• Lamentations 4:14 OT

  They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

• Ezekiel 13:1-23 OT

  Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “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: The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow…

• Ezekiel 14:9 OT

  “ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

• Ezekiel 14:10 OT

  They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

• Ezekiel 22:25 OT

  There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.

• Ezekiel 22:26 OT

  Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their…

• Ezekiel 22:28 OT

  Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

• Ezekiel 44:8 OT

  You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

• Ezekiel 44:10 OT

  “ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

• Hosea 4:6 OT

  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

• Hosea 4:8-13 OT

  They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. They will eat, and not have enough. They will play…

• Hosea 5:1 OT

  “Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

• Hosea 6:9 OT

  As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

• Hosea 9:7 OT

  The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

• Hosea 9:8 OT

  A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

• Amos 2:12 OT

  “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

• Micah 2:11 OT

  If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

• Micah 3:5-7 OT

  Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: “Therefore night is over you, with no…

• Micah 3:11 OT

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Zephaniah 3:4 OT

  Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

• Zechariah 10:3 OT

  My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.

• Zechariah 11:4 OT

  Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

• Zechariah 11:5 OT

  Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.