10 who have said to the ones seeing, ‘YOU must not see,’ and to the ones having visions, ‘YOU must not envision for us any straightforward things.+ Speak to us smooth* things; envision deceptive things.+

21 Therefore this is what Jehovah has said against the men of Anʹa·thoth+ who are seeking for your soul,* saying: “You must not prophesy in the name of Jehovah,+ that you may not die at our hand”;

12 And Am·a·ziʹah proceeded to say to Aʹmos: “O visionary,+ go, run your way off to the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and there you may prophesy.

18 With that they called them and charged them, nowhere to make any utterance or to teach upon the basis of the name of Jesus.

16 as they try to hinder*+ us from speaking to people of the nations that these might be saved,+ with the result that they always fill up the measure+ of their sins. But his* wrath has at length* come upon them.+