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 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.

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.

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 The Lord Jehovah said: 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 gaps (broken places) of the wall around the house of Israel. You did not build the wall to stand in the battle on the day of Jehovah.

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:15

(Her Brothers) Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Micah 2:11

If a man who is a constant liar tells a lie saying: 'I will prophesy to you about wine and of strong drink;' he would be the prophet of this people.

Micah 3:5

Jehovah spoke concerning the prophets: They make my people stray. They bite with their teeth and cry, Peace, but receive nothing in their mouths. They declare holy war on him.

Matthew 7:15

Watch out for the false prophets. They are disguised as sheep. But in their hearts they are vicious wolves.

Romans 16:18

They do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unaware.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

Galatians 2:4

This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro 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

The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

1 Timothy 4:1-2

The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,

Titus 1:10-12

There are many unruly (rebellious) men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.

Revelation 13:11-14

Then I saw another wild 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 captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

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