Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel.

以色列啊，你的先知好像荒场中的狐狸，

以色列啊，你的先知好像废墟中的狐狸，

以色列啊，你的先知好像废墟中的狐狸，

以色列人啊，你们的先知像废墟中的狐狸，

以色列啊！你的先知好像废墟中的狐狸。

以色列啊，你的先知好像荒場中的狐狸，

以色列啊，你的先知好像廢墟中的狐狸，

以色列啊，你的先知好像廢墟中的狐狸，

以色列人啊，你們的先知像廢墟中的狐狸，

以色列啊！你的先知好像廢墟中的狐狸。

以色列啊，你的神言人如同荒場中的狼。

以色列乎、爾之先知、譬如荒邱之狐、

以色列族乎、爾之先知、譬彼野狐。

以色列人歟、爾之先知、如在荒墟之狐狸、

Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

Israel, your prophets are like wild dogs that live among broken- down buildings.

Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.

“ O people of Israel, these prophets of yours are like jackals digging in the ruins.

Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

Israel, your prophets have been like jackals among ruins.

O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts.

O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

This is what the LORD says:“ The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

If a lying windbag should come and say,‘ I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ he would be just the right preacher for these people!

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf– signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said,“ Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.He exercised all the ruling authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, the one whose lethal wound had been healed.He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of peopleand, by the signs he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, he deceived those who live on the earth. He told those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword, but still lived.

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

“ Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards– for our vineyard is in bloom.