Parallel Verses
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.
American Standard Version
O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Amplified
O Israel, your prophets have been like
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.
Themes
Fox » Figurative » Of unfaithful prophets
Foxes » Illustrative of » False prophets
Opposition » Who the lord opposes
False prophets » Compared to foxes in the desert
Sending and those sent » Who the lord did not send
Speech/communication » Who speaks vanity
Speech/communication » Who speaks visions of their own heart
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 13:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Condemnation Of False Prophets
3 Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. 5 You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:15
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom."
Micah 2:11
If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!
Micah 3:5
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
Matthew 7:15
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Romans 16:18
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in--who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery--
Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
1 Timothy 4:1-2
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Titus 1:10-12
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
Revelation 13:11-14
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.