Quotes About Deception

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ëThe LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.í”

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Tell those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD!

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ëThus declares the LORD,í when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Havenít you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ëThus declares the LORD,í even though I have not spoken?

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.

Because they have led My people astray, saying, ëPeace,í when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,

tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ëWhere is the whitewash with which you covered it?í

And after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ëThe wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.í

Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them

and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.