Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

New American Standard Bible

O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.

King James Version

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

Holman Bible

Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

International Standard Version

Israel, your prophets have become like foxes among ruins.

A Conservative Version

O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

Amplified

O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among the ruins.

Bible in Basic English

O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.

Darby Translation

O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in desert places.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy prophets were as the foxes in the sterile regions, Israel

King James 2000

O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.

Modern King James verseion

O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field:

NET Bible

Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel.

New Heart English Bible

Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

The Emphasized Bible

As jackals, among ruins, thy prophets O Israel have been.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
O Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

נביא 
Nabiy' 
Usage: 315

are like the foxes
שׁעל שׁוּעל 
Shuw`al 
fox
Usage: 7

References

American

Fox

Easton

Fausets

Fox

Smith

Watsons

Fox

Context Readings

Condemnation Of False Prophets

3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:15

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in a spirit of 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 Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

Galatians 2:4

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Ephesians 4:14

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10

even he , whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

1 Timothy 4:1-2

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Titus 1:10-12

For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

Revelation 13:11-14

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

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