Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
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 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 So says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 You have not gone up into the breaks, nor built the wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 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 walks with wind and lies falsely, saying, I will drop words to you for wine and for strong drink, he shall even be a dropper of words for this people.
Micah 3:5
So says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people err, who bite with their teeth and cry, Peace! And whoever does not give for their mouth, they even sanctify a war against him.
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Romans 16:18
For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Galatians 2:4
But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;
Ephesians 4:14
so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
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 expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
Titus 1:10-12
For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Revelation 13:11-14
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.