¹⁷ And you, son of man, let your face be turned against the daughters of your people, who are acting the part of prophets at their pleasure; be a prophet against them, and say,

² Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

¹⁴ So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.

⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

³⁶ And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

² Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

⁴⁶ Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;

³ And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

⁴ When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

¹⁶ Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

¹⁷ The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,

¹⁹ The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,

²⁰ The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,

²¹ The rings, and the nose-jewels,

²² The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,

²³ The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.

²⁴ And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

²⁵ Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

²⁶ And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.