Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field:
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.
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 sayeth the LORD God: Woe be unto those foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and speak where they see nothing. 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field: 5 For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they a hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the LORD.
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:15
Get us the foxes, yea the little foxes that hurt the vines, for our vines bear blossoms.
Micah 2:11
If I were a fleshly fellow, and a preacher of lies, and told them that they might sit bibbing and bolling, and be drunken: O that were a Prophet for this people!
Micah 3:5
And as concerning the prophets that deceive my people, thus the LORD sayeth against them: When they have any thing to bite upon, then they preach that all shall be well. But if a man put not some thing in to their mouths, they preach of war against him.
Matthew 7:15
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Romans 16:18
For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.
Galatians 2:4
and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
even him whose coming is by the working of Satan, with all lying power, signs, and wonders:
1 Timothy 4:1-2
The spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error,
Titus 1:10-12
For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision,
Revelation 13:11-14
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as did the dragon.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone: