Ezekiel 13:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.”
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BSBPD
“Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Ezekiel 13:4 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Song of Solomon 2:15Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.
- Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
- Micah 2:11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
- Micah 3:5This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
- Romans 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- 2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
- Galatians 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
- 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- Titus 1:10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
- Revelation 13:11Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
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