²⁰ Consult God’s instruction^(A) and the testimony of warning.^(B) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^(C) of dawn. ²¹ Distressed and hungry,^(D) they will roam through the land;^(E) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(F) their king and their God. ²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(G) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(H)

⁹ “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

² “On that day, I will banish the names of the idols^(A) from the land, and they will be remembered no more,”^(B) declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets^(C) and the spirit of impurity from the land. ³ And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, ‘You must die, because you have told lies^(D) in the Lord’s name.’ Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.^(E)

⁴ “On that day every prophet will be ashamed^(F) of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet’s garment^(G) of hair^(H) in order to deceive.^(I)

²² Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies,^(A) when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,^{(B) 23} therefore you will no longer see false visions^(C) or practice divination.^(D) I will save^(E) my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.^(F)’”