Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

Israel, your 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.

American Standard 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.

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 says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. 5 You 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 the LORD."

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:15

Catch for 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 lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace." and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they 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 those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

Galatians 2:4

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Ephesians 4:14

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery 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 says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Titus 1:10-12

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Revelation 13:11-14

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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