Therefore stumblest thou in the daytime and the prophet with them in the night. I will bring thy mother to silence, and why?

Be ye sure, O Israel: the time of visitation is come, the days of recompensing are at hand. As for the prophet, ye hold him for a fool; and him that is rich in the spirit, for a mad man: so great is your wickedness and malice.

Ephraim hath made himself a watchman of my God, a prophet that is become a snare to do hurt in every street, and abomination in the house of his God.

By a prophet the LORD brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophet he preserved them.