Ezekiel 13:10

Ezekiel 13:10

8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God.

9 “My hand will be ^aagainst the prophets who envision futility and who ^bdivine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, ^cnor be written in the record of the house of Israel, ^dnor shall they enter into the land of Israel. ^eThen you shall know that I am the Lord God.

10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ^a‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they ^bplaster it with untempered mortar—

11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. ^aThere will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.

12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”

13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Because, even because—The repetition heightens the emphasis.

Peace—safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11.

one—literally, "this one"; said contemptuously, as in II Chronicles 28:22.

a wall—rather, "a loose wall." Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not "go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches" (Ezekiel 13:5), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.

one . . . others—besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people.

daubed . . . with untempered mortar—as sand without lime, mud without straw [GROTIUS]. FAIRBAIRN translates, "plaster it with whitewash." But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Matthew 23:27, Matthew 23:29; Acts 23:3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken" (Ezekiel 22:28).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 13:10:**

Jeremiah 6:14
Jeremiah 8:11
Jeremiah 23:17
Jeremiah 37:17
Ezekiel 13:18
Ezekiel 22:28
Matthew 7:15
1 Thessalonians 5:3

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