This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

Then a wind ¹  lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, ²  in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, ¹  and I threw myself face down.

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!”

It was like the vision I saw when he ¹  came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

Its boughs were strong, fit ¹  for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches. ² 

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? ¹  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ¹ 

They see delusion and their omens are a lie. ¹  They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; ²  yet they expect their word to be confirmed. ³ 

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look, ¹  I am against you, ²  declares the sovereign Lord.

They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings ¹  I saw at the Kebar River.

(The cherubim appeared to have the form ¹  of human hands under their wings.)

These were the living creatures ¹  which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ² 

You were blameless in your behavior ¹  from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you.