Israel, your prophets have been like jackals among ruins.

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.

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.

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

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

This is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray: When they have something to bite with their teeth, They cry out,“ Peace!” But against him who puts nothing in their mouths They declare holy war.

If someone walking after wind and falsehood Had lied and said,‘ I will prophesy to you about wine and liquor,’ He would become a prophet to this people.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone.

For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.One of them, a prophet of their own, said,“ Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who live on it worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the presence of people.And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who* had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

“ Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and false signs and wonders,and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.

“ Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, While our vineyards are in blossom.”