Quotes About Prophets

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ëDo not do this detestable thing that I hate.í

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.

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.

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

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.

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.

Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says,í when the LORD has not spoken.

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.

and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheepís clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.