12. So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.They will stumble and fall headlong.For I will bring disaster on them.A day of reckoning is coming for them.”The Lord affirms it!
13. The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samariadoing something that was disgusting.They prophesied in the name of the god Baaland led my people Israel astray.
14. But I see the prophets of Jerusalemdoing something just as shocking.They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies.So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil,with the result that they do not stop their evildoing.I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom,and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.
15. So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reasonthat ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”
16. The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem:“Do not listen to whatthose prophets are saying to you.They are filling you with false hopes.They are reporting visions of their own imaginations,not something the Lord has given them to say.
17. They continually say to those who reject what the Lord has said,‘Things will go well for you!’They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts,‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’