Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel.
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:
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 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel. 5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:15
The Beloved to Her Lover: Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards -- for our vineyard is in bloom.
Micah 2:11
If a lying windbag should come and say, 'I'll promise you blessings of wine and beer,' he would be just the right preacher for these people!
Micah 3:5
This is what the Lord says: "The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.
Matthew 7:15
"Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.
Romans 16:18
For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Galatians 2:4
Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
Ephesians 4:14
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,
1 Timothy 4:1-2
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
Titus 1:10-12
For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,
Revelation 13:11-14
Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.
Revelation 19:20
Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.