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Summary
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
The idols
The diviners
They comfort
Therefore
Troubled, because there
Bible References
The idols
Genesis 31:19
When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”
Isaiah 44:9
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.
Isaiah 46:5 “To whom would you liken Me
And make Me equal and compare Me,
That we would be alike?
And make Me equal and compare Me,
That we would be alike?
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline ofdelusion—their idol is wood!
In their discipline of
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain?
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore wehope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we
For You are the one who has done all these things.
Hosea 3:4
For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.
Habakkuk 2:18 “What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Oran image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its makertrusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
Or
For its maker
When he fashions speechless idols.
The diviners
Jeremiah 23:25
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’
Jeremiah 27:9
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
Jeremiah 29:8
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.
Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have notexposed your iniquity
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they haveseen for you false and misleading oracles.
False and foolish visions;
And they have not
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have
Ezekiel 13:6
They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
Ezekiel 21:29
while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.
Micah 3:6 Therefore it will be night for you—without vision,
And darkness for you—without divination.
Thesun will go down on the prophets,
And the day will become dark over them.
And darkness for you—without divination.
The
And the day will become dark over them.
They comfort
Job 13:4 “But you smear with lies;
You are allworthless physicians.
You are all
Job 21:34 “How then will you vainly comfort me,
For your answers remain full offalsehood?”
For your answers remain full of
Jeremiah 6:14 “They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:11 “They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
Jeremiah 14:13
But, “Ah, Lord God!” I said, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Jeremiah 23:17 “They keep saying to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;
And as for everyone who walks in thestubbornness of his own heart,
They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’
‘The Lord has said, “
And as for everyone who walks in the
They say, ‘
Jeremiah 28:4
I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
Jeremiah 37:19 Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
Therefore
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not listen to it,
My soul willsob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because theflock of the Lord has been taken captive.
My soul will
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the
Jeremiah 50:17
“Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,
And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,
And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
Micah 2:12 “I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob,
I will surely gather theremnant of Israel.
I will put them together like sheep in the fold;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture
They will be noisy with men.
I will surely gather the
I will put them together like sheep in the fold;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture
They will be noisy with men.
Troubled, because there
Numbers 27:17
who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
1 Kings 22:17
So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep which have no shepherd.
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”
Ezekiel 34:5
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.
Matthew 9:36 Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.