Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. New Living Translation “O people of Israel, these prophets of yours are like jackals digging in the ruins. English Standard Version Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. Berean Standard Bible Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. King James Bible O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. New King James Version O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. New American Standard Bible Israel, your prophets have been like jackals among ruins. NASB 1995 “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. NASB 1977 “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. Legacy Standard Bible O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste places. Amplified Bible O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among the ruins. Christian Standard Bible Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. American Standard Version O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Like foxes among the ruins they have been your Prophets, oh Israel! Brenton Septuagint Translation Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts. Contemporary English Version Israel's prophets are no better than jackals that hunt for food among the ruins of a city. Douay-Rheims Bible Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts. English Revised Version O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. GOD'S WORD® Translation Israel, your prophets are like foxes among the ruins [of a city]. Good News Translation People of Israel, your prophets are as useless as foxes living among the ruins of a city. International Standard Version Israel, your prophets have become like foxes among ruins. JPS Tanakh 1917 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in ruins. Literal Standard Version Your prophets have been | As foxes in the wasteland, O Israel. Majority Standard Bible Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. New American Bible Like foxes among ruins are your prophets, Israel! NET Bible Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel. New Revised Standard Version Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. New Heart English Bible Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. Webster's Bible Translation O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. World English Bible Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. Young's Literal Translation As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Reproof of False Prophets…3This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing. 4Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. 5You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.… Cross References Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes--the little foxes that ruin the vineyards--for our vineyards are in bloom. Ezekiel 13:3 This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing. Ezekiel 13:5 You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD. Treasury of Scripture O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. like Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. Micah 3:5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. Jump to Previous Desert Deserts Foxes Israel Jackals Places Prophets Ruins Waste WastesJump to Next Desert Deserts Foxes Israel Jackals Places Prophets Ruins Waste WastesEzekiel 13 1. The reproof of false prophets10. and their untempered mortar 17. Of prophecies and their pillows (4) Like the foxes in the deserts.--The comparison is sufficiently close if it is considered as extending only to these mischievous men living unconcerned among the ruins of their state and country, as the foxes find their home in desolated cities (Lamentations 5:18); but many extend the simile to the undermining of the ground by the foxes, as these prophets accelerated the ruin of their people.Verse 4 - Like the foxes in the deserts, etc. The points of comparison are manifold. The fox is cunning (Luke 13:32, where the term is applied to Herod Antipas). It spoils the vine and its fruits (Song of Solomon 2:15); it burrows among ruins (Nehemiah 4:3; Lamentations 5:18). So the false prophets were crafty, laid waste the vineyard of the Lord of hosts (Isaiah 5:7), made their profit out of the ruin of Israel, and made that ruin worse. The 'Reineke Fuchs,' in satirizing the monks and priests of the sixteenth century under the same comparison, presents a curious, though probably unconscious, analogue. In Matthew 7:15 and Acts 20:29 wolves appear as the types of the false prophet. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your prophets,נְבִיאֶ֥יךָ (nə·ḇî·’e·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet O Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc are הָיֽוּ׃ (hā·yū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like jackals כְּשֻׁעָלִ֖ים (kə·šu·‘ā·lîm) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 7776: Fox, perhaps jackal among the ruins. בָּחֳרָב֑וֹת (bā·ḥo·rā·ḇō·wṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 2723: Waste, desolation, ruin Links Ezekiel 13:4 NIVEzekiel 13:4 NLT Ezekiel 13:4 ESV Ezekiel 13:4 NASB Ezekiel 13:4 KJV Ezekiel 13:4 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 13:4 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 13:4 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 13:4 French Bible Ezekiel 13:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 13:4 Israel your prophets have been like foxes (Ezek. Eze Ezk) |
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