Ezekiel 13:1-11
prophesy .... prophets ....... prophesying ..... prophets <05012 05030> [prophesy against.]
prophesy .... prophets ....... prophesying ..... prophets ...... imagination <05012 05030 03820> [prophesy out of. Heb. are prophets out of.]
Hear <08085> [Hear.]
Woe <01945> [Woe.]
foolish <05036> [foolish.]
follow <01980> [follow. Heb. walk after. have seen nothing. or, things which they have not seen.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
Crafty, mischievous, and ravenous; always scheming something for their own interest; while they would not risk their persons to avert the mischief which they had caused.
jackals <07776> [like.]
up <05927> [have not.]
breaks <06556> [gaps. or, breaches.]
repaired ... wall <01447 01443> [made up the hedge. Heb. hedged the hedge. to stand.]
day <03117> [the day.]
see <02372> [have seen.]
lie <03577> [lying.]
say <0559> [saying.]
expect <03176> [made.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
declares <05002> [behold.]
hand <03027> [mine.]
council <05475> [assembly. or, secret, or council. neither shall they be.]
enter <0935> [neither shall they enter.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
led <02937> [seduced.]
well ...... well <07965> [Peace.]
builds <01129> [and one.]
These false prophets pretend to be a wall of defence; but their wall is bad, and their morter is worse. One gives a lying vision; another pledges himself that it is true; and the people believe what they say, and trust not in God, nor turn from their sins.
wall <02434> [a wall. or, a slight wall. others.]
deluge <07857> [there shall.]
It shall wash off this bad morter, sweep away the wall, and level it with the earth. In the East, where the walls are often built with unbaked bricks, desolations of this kind are frequently occasioned by tempestuous rains.