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Eze 13:8	Strong Concordance	Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because ye have spoken [01696] vanity [07723], and seen [02372] lies [03577], therefore, behold, I am against you, saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].
	King James	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I am against you--rather understand, "I come against you," to punish your wicked profanation of My name (compare Rev 2:5, Rev 2:16).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

I am against you--rather understand, "I come against you," to punish your wicked profanation of My name (compare Rev 2:5, Rev 2:16).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Punishment of the False Prophets Eze 13:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because ye speak vanity and prophesy lying, therefore, behold, I will deal with you, is the saying of the Lord Jehovah. Eze 13:9. And my hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and divine lies: in the council of my people they shall not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they shall not be registered, and into the land of Israel shall they not come; and ye shall learn that I am the Lord Jehovah. Eze 13:10. Because, yea because they lead my people astray, and say, "Peace," though there is no peace; and when it (my people) build a wall, behold, they plaster it with cement: Eze 13:11. Say to the plasterers, that it will fall: there cometh a pouring rain; and ye hailstones fall, and thou stormy wind break loose! Eze 13:12. And, behold, the wall falleth; will men not say to you, Where is the plaster with which ye have plastered it? Eze 13:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I cause a stormy wind to break forth in my wrath, and a pouring rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in wrath, for destruction. Eze 13:14. And I demolish the wall which ye have plastered, and cast it to the ground, that its foundation may be exposed, and it shall fall, and ye shall perish in the midst of it; and shall learn that I am Jehovah. Eze 13:15. And I will exhaust my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who plaster it; and will say to you, It is all over with the wall, and all over with those who plastered it; Eze 13:16. With the prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem, and saw visions of peace for her, though there is no peace, is the saying of the Lord Jehovah. - In Eze 13:8 the punishment which is to fall upon the false prophets is threatened in general terms; and in Eze 13:9 it is more specifically described in the form of a climax, rising higher and higher in the severity of its announcements. (1) They are no longer to form part of the council of the people of God; that is to say, they will lose their influential position among the people. (סוד is the sphere of counsellors, not the social sphere.) (2) Their names shall not be registered in the book of the house of Israel. The book of the house of Israel is the register in which the citizens of the kingdom of God are entered. Any one whose name was not admitted into this book, or was struck out of it, was separated thereby from the citizenship of Israel, and lost all the privileges which citizenship conferred. The figure of the book of life is a similar one (cf. Exo 32:32). For Israel is not referred to here with regard to its outward nationality, but as the people of God; so that exclusion from Israel was also exclusion from fellowship with God. The circumstance that it is not the erasure of their names from the book that is mentioned here, but their not being entered in the book at all, may be accounted for from the reference contained in the words to the founding of the new kingdom of God. The old theocracy was abolished, although Jerusalem was not yet destroyed. The covenant nation had fallen under the judgment; but out of that portion of Israel which was dispersed among the heathen, a remnant would be gathered together again, and having been brought back to its own land, would be made anew into a holy people of God (cf. Eze 11:17.). But the false prophets are not to be received into the citizenship of the new kingdom. (3) They are not even to come into the land of Israel; i.e., they are not merely to remain in exile, but to lose all share in the privileges and blessings of the kingdom of God. This judgment will come upon them because they lead astray the people of God, by proclaiming peace where there is no peace; i.e., by raising and cherishing false hopes of prosperity and peace, by which they encourage the people in their sinful lives, and lead them to imagine that all is well, and there is no judgment to be feared (cf. Jer 23:17 and Mic 3:5). The exposure of this offence is introduced by the solemn יען וּביען, because and because (cf. Lev 26:43); and the offence itself is exhibited by means of a figure. When the people build a wall, the false prophets plaster the wall with lime. והוּא (Eze 13:10) refers to עמּי, and the clause is a circumstantial one. תּפל signifies the plaster coating or cement of a wall, probably from the primary meaning of תּפל, to stick or plaster over (= טפל, conglutinare, to glue, or fasten together), from which the secondary meaning of weak, insipid, has sprung. The proper word for plaster or cement is טיח (Eze 13:12), and תּפל is probably chosen with an allusion to the tropical signification of that which is silly or absurd (Jer 23:13; Lam 2:14). The meaning of the figure is intelligible enough. The people build up foolish hopes, and the prophets not only paint these hopes for them in splendid colours, but even predict their fulfilment, instead of denouncing their folly, pointing out to the people the perversity of their ways, and showing them that such sinful conduct must inevitably be followed by punishment and ruin. The plastering is therefore a figurative description of deceitful flattery or hypocrisy, i.e., the covering up of inward corruption by means of outward appearance (as in Mat 23:27 and Act 23:3). This figure leads the prophet to describe the judgment which they are bringing upon the nation and themselves, as a tempest accompanied with hail and pouring rain, which throws down the wall that has been erected and plastered over; and in connection with this figure he opens out this double thought: (1) the conduct of the people, which is encouraged by the false prophets, cannot last (Eze 13:11 and Eze 13:12); and (2) when this work of theirs is overthrown, the false prophets themselves will also meet with the fate they deserve (Eze 13:13-16). The threat of judgment commences with the short, energetic ויפּל, let it (the wall) fall, or it shall fall, with Vav to indicate the train of thought (Ewald, 347a). The subject is תּפל, to which יפּל suggests a resemblance in sound. In Eze 13:12 this is predicted as the fate awaiting the plastered wall. In the description of the bursting storm the account passes with ואתּנה (and ye) into a direct address; in other words, the description assumes the form of an appeal to the destructive forces of nature to burst forth with all their violence against the work plastered over by the prophets, and to destroy it. גּשׁם שׁוטף ., pouring rain; cf. Eze 38:22. אבני אלגּבישׁ here and Eze 38:22 are hailstones. The word אלגּבישׁ, which is peculiar to Ezekiel, is probably גּבישׁ (Job 28:18), with the Arabic article אל; ice, then crystal. רוּח , wind of storms, a hurricane or tempest. תּבקּע (Eze 13:11) is used intransitively, to break loose; but in Eze 13:13 it is transitive, to cause to break loose. The active rendering adopted by Kliefoth, "the storm will rend," sc. the plaster of the wall, is inappropriate in Eze 13:11; for a tempest does not rend either the plaster or the wall, but throws the wall down. The translation which Kliefoth gives in Eze 13:13, "I will rend by tempest," is at variance with both the language and the sense. Jehovah will cause this tempest to burst forth in His wrath and destroy the wall, and lay it level with the ground. The suffix in בּתוכהּ refers (ad sensum) to Jerusalem not to קיר (the wall), which is masculine, and has no תּוך (midst). The words pass from the figure to the reality here; for the plastered wall is a symbol of Jerusalem, as the centre of the theocracy, which is to be destroyed, and to bury the lying prophets in its ruins. וכלּיתי (Eze 13:15) contains a play upon the word לכלה in Eze 13:13. By a new turn given to klh כלה, Ezekiel repeats the thought that the wrath of God is to destroy the wall and its plasterers; and through this repetition he rounds off the threat with the express declaration, that the false prophets who are ever preaching peace are the plasterers to whom he refers.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Punishment of the False Prophets

Eze 13:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because ye speak vanity and prophesy lying, therefore, behold, I will deal with you, is the saying of the Lord Jehovah. Eze 13:9. And my hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and divine lies: in the council of my people they shall not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they shall not be registered, and into the land of Israel shall they not come; and ye shall learn that I am the Lord Jehovah. Eze 13:10. Because, yea because they lead my people astray, and say, "Peace," though there is no peace; and when it (my people) build a wall, behold, they plaster it with cement: Eze 13:11. Say to the plasterers, that it will fall: there cometh a pouring rain; and ye hailstones fall, and thou stormy wind break loose! Eze 13:12. And, behold, the wall falleth; will men not say to you, Where is the plaster with which ye have plastered it? Eze 13:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I cause a stormy wind to break forth in my wrath, and a pouring rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in wrath, for destruction. Eze 13:14. And I demolish the wall which ye have plastered, and cast it to the ground, that its foundation may be exposed, and it shall fall, and ye shall perish in the midst of it; and shall learn that I am Jehovah. Eze 13:15. And I will exhaust my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who plaster it; and will say to you, It is all over with the wall, and all over with those who plastered it; Eze 13:16. With the prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem, and saw visions of peace for her, though there is no peace, is the saying of the Lord Jehovah. - In Eze 13:8 the punishment which is to fall upon the false prophets is threatened in general terms; and in Eze 13:9 it is more specifically described in the form of a climax, rising higher and higher in the severity of its announcements. (1) They are no longer to form part of the council of the people of God; that is to say, they will lose their influential position among the people. (סוד is the sphere of counsellors, not the social sphere.) (2) Their names shall not be registered in the book of the house of Israel. The book of the house of Israel is the register in which the citizens of the kingdom of God are entered. Any one whose name was not admitted into this book, or was struck out of it, was separated thereby from the citizenship of Israel, and lost all the privileges which citizenship conferred. The figure of the book of life is a similar one (cf. Exo 32:32). For Israel is not referred to here with regard to its outward nationality, but as the people of God; so that exclusion from Israel was also exclusion from fellowship with God. The circumstance that it is not the erasure of their names from the book that is mentioned here, but their not being entered in the book at all, may be accounted for from the reference contained in the words to the founding of the new kingdom of God. The old theocracy was abolished, although Jerusalem was not yet destroyed. The covenant nation had fallen under the judgment; but out of that portion of Israel which was dispersed among the heathen, a remnant would be gathered together again, and having been brought back to its own land, would be made anew into a holy people of God (cf. Eze 11:17.). But the false prophets are not to be received into the citizenship of the new kingdom. (3) They are not even to come into the land of Israel; i.e., they are not merely to remain in exile, but to lose all share in the privileges and blessings of the kingdom of God. This judgment will come upon them because they lead astray the people of God, by proclaiming peace where there is no peace; i.e., by raising and cherishing false hopes of prosperity and peace, by which they encourage the people in their sinful lives, and lead them to imagine that all is well, and there is no judgment to be feared (cf. Jer 23:17 and Mic 3:5). The exposure of this offence is introduced by the solemn יען וּביען, because and because (cf. Lev 26:43); and the offence itself is exhibited by means of a figure.

When the people build a wall, the false prophets plaster the wall with lime. והוּא (Eze 13:10) refers to עמּי, and the clause is a circumstantial one. תּפל signifies the plaster coating or cement of a wall, probably from the primary meaning of תּפל, to stick or plaster over (= טפל, conglutinare, to glue, or fasten together), from which the secondary meaning of weak, insipid, has sprung. The proper word for plaster or cement is טיח (Eze 13:12), and תּפל is probably chosen with an allusion to the tropical signification of that which is silly or absurd (Jer 23:13; Lam 2:14). The meaning of the figure is intelligible enough. The people build up foolish hopes, and the prophets not only paint these hopes for them in splendid colours, but even predict their fulfilment, instead of denouncing their folly, pointing out to the people the perversity of their ways, and showing them that such sinful conduct must inevitably be followed by punishment and ruin. The plastering is therefore a figurative description of deceitful flattery or hypocrisy, i.e., the covering up of inward corruption by means of outward appearance (as in Mat 23:27 and Act 23:3). This figure leads the prophet to describe the judgment which they are bringing upon the nation and themselves, as a tempest accompanied with hail and pouring rain, which throws down the wall that has been erected and plastered over; and in connection with this figure he opens out this double thought: (1) the conduct of the people, which is encouraged by the false prophets, cannot last (Eze 13:11 and Eze 13:12); and (2) when this work of theirs is overthrown, the false prophets themselves will also meet with the fate they deserve (Eze 13:13-16). The threat of judgment commences with the short, energetic ויפּל, let it (the wall) fall, or it shall fall, with Vav to indicate the train of thought (Ewald, 347a). The subject is תּפל, to which יפּל suggests a resemblance in sound. In Eze 13:12 this is predicted as the fate awaiting the plastered wall. In the description of the bursting storm the account passes with ואתּנה (and ye) into a direct address; in other words, the description assumes the form of an appeal to the destructive forces of nature to burst forth with all their violence against the work plastered over by the prophets, and to destroy it. גּשׁם שׁוטף ., pouring rain; cf. Eze 38:22. אבני אלגּבישׁ here and Eze 38:22 are hailstones. The word אלגּבישׁ, which is peculiar to Ezekiel, is probably גּבישׁ (Job 28:18), with the Arabic article אל; ice, then crystal. רוּח , wind of storms, a hurricane or tempest. תּבקּע (Eze 13:11) is used intransitively, to break loose; but in Eze 13:13 it is transitive, to cause to break loose. The active rendering adopted by Kliefoth, "the storm will rend," sc. the plaster of the wall, is inappropriate in Eze 13:11; for a tempest does not rend either the plaster or the wall, but throws the wall down. The translation which Kliefoth gives in Eze 13:13, "I will rend by tempest," is at variance with both the language and the sense. Jehovah will cause this tempest to burst forth in His wrath and destroy the wall, and lay it level with the ground. The suffix in בּתוכהּ refers (ad sensum) to Jerusalem not to קיר (the wall), which is masculine, and has no תּוך (midst). The words pass from the figure to the reality here; for the plastered wall is a symbol of Jerusalem, as the centre of the theocracy, which is to be destroyed, and to bury the lying prophets in its ruins. וכלּיתי (Eze 13:15) contains a play upon the word לכלה in Eze 13:13. By a new turn given to klh כלה, Ezekiel repeats the thought that the wrath of God is to destroy the wall and its plasterers; and through this repetition he rounds off the threat with the express declaration, that the false prophets who are ever preaching peace are the plasterers to whom he refers.

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¹⁶ Repent [3340]; or else [1490] I will come [2064] unto thee [4671] quickly [5035], and [2532] will fight [4170] against [3326] them [846] with [1722] the sword [4501] of my [3450] mouth [4750].

⁵ Remember [3421] therefore [3767] from whence [4159] thou art fallen [1601], and [2532] repent [3340], and [2532] do [4160] the first [4413] works [2041]; or else [1490] I will come [2064] unto thee [4671] quickly [5035], and [2532] will remove [2795] thy [4675] candlestick [3087] out of [1537] his [846] place [5117], except [3362] thou repent [3340].

¹⁵ Thus will I accomplish [03615] my wrath [02534] upon the wall [07023], and upon them that have daubed [02902] it with untempered [08602] morter, and will say [0559] unto you, The wall [07023] is no more, neither they that daubed [02902] it;

¹¹ Say [0559] unto them which daub [02902] it with untempered [08602] morter, that it shall fall [05307]: there shall be an overflowing [07857] shower [01653]; and ye [0859], O great hailstones [0417] [068], shall fall [05307]; and a stormy [05591] wind [07307] shall rend [01234] it.

¹⁸ No mention [02142] shall be made of coral [07215], or of pearls [01378]: for the price [04901] of wisdom [02451] is above rubies [06443].

²² And I will plead [08199] against him with pestilence [01698] and with blood [01818]; and I will rain [04305] upon him, and upon his bands [0102], and upon the many [07227] people [05971] that are with him, an overflowing [07857] rain [01653], and great hailstones [0417] [068], fire [0784], and brimstone [01614].

¹² Lo, when the wall [07023] is fallen [05307], shall it not be said [0559] unto you, Where is the daubing [02915] wherewith ye have daubed [02902] it?

¹³ Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will even rend [01234] it with a stormy [05591] wind [07307] in my fury [02534]; and there shall be an overflowing [07857] shower [01653] in mine anger [0639], and great hailstones [0417] [068] in my fury [02534] to consume [03617] it.
¹⁴ So will I break down [02040] the wall [07023] that ye have daubed [02902] with untempered [08602] morter, and bring [05060] it down to the ground [0776], so that the foundation [03247] thereof shall be discovered [01540], and it shall fall [05307], and ye shall be consumed [03615] in the midst [08432] thereof: and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
¹⁵ Thus will I accomplish [03615] my wrath [02534] upon the wall [07023], and upon them that have daubed [02902] it with untempered [08602] morter, and will say [0559] unto you, The wall [07023] is no more, neither they that daubed [02902] it;
¹⁶ To wit, the prophets [05030] of Israel [03478] which prophesy [05012] concerning Jerusalem [03389], and which see [02374] visions [02377] of peace [07965] for her, and there is no peace [07965], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

¹² Lo, when the wall [07023] is fallen [05307], shall it not be said [0559] unto you, Where is the daubing [02915] wherewith ye have daubed [02902] it?

³ Then [5119] said [2036] Paul [3972] unto [4314] him [846], God [2316] shall [3195] smite [5180] thee [4571], thou whited [2867] wall [5109]: for [2532] sittest [2521] thou [4771] to judge [2919] me [3165] after [2596] the law [3551], and [2532] commandest [2753] me [3165] to be smitten [5180] contrary to the law [3891]?

²⁷ Woe [3759] unto you [5213], scribes [1122] and [2532] Pharisees [5330], hypocrites [5273]! for [3754] ye are like [3945] unto whited [2867] sepulchres [5028], which [3748] indeed [3303] appear [5316] beautiful [5611] outward [1855], but [1161] are within [2081] full [1073] of dead [3498] men's bones [3747], and [2532] of all [3956] uncleanness [167].

¹⁴ Thy prophets [05030] have seen [02372] vain [07723] and foolish things [08602] for thee: and they have not discovered [01540] thine iniquity [05771], to turn away [07725] thy captivity [07622] [07622]; but have seen [02372] for thee false [07723] burdens [04864] and causes of banishment [04065].

¹³ And I have seen [07200] folly [08604] in the prophets [05030] of Samaria [08111]; they prophesied [05012] in Baal [01168], and caused my people [05971] Israel [03478] to err [08582].

¹² Lo, when the wall [07023] is fallen [05307], shall it not be said [0559] unto you, Where is the daubing [02915] wherewith ye have daubed [02902] it?

¹⁰ Because, even because they have seduced [02937] my people [05971], saying [0559], Peace [07965]; and there was no peace [07965]; and one built up [01129] a wall [02434], and, lo [02009], others daubed [02902] it with untempered [08602] morter:

⁴³ The land [0776] also shall be left [05800] of them, and shall enjoy [07521] her sabbaths [07676], while she lieth desolate [08074] without them: and they shall accept [07521] of the punishment of their iniquity [05771]: because [03282], even because [03282] they despised [03988] my judgments [04941], and because their soul [05315] abhorred [01602] my statutes [02708].

⁵ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] concerning the prophets [05030] that make my people [05971] err [08582], that bite [05391] with their teeth [08127], and cry [07121], Peace [07965]; and he that putteth [05414] not into their mouths [06310], they even prepare [06942] war [04421] against him.

¹⁷ They say [0559] still [0559] unto them that despise [05006] me, The LORD [03068] hath said [01696], Ye shall have peace [07965]; and they say [0559] unto every one that walketh [01980] after the imagination [08307] of his own heart [03820], No evil [07451] shall come [0935] upon you.

¹⁷ Therefore say [0559], Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will even gather [06908] you from the people [05971], and assemble [0622] you out of the countries [0776] where ye have been scattered [06327], and I will give [05414] you the land [0127] of Israel [03478].

³² Yet now, if thou wilt forgive [05375] their sin [02403]--; and if not, blot [04229] me, I pray thee, out of thy book [05612] which thou hast written [03789].

⁹ And mine hand [03027] shall be upon the prophets [05030] that see [02374] vanity [07723], and that divine [07080] lies [03577]: they shall not be in the assembly [05475] of my people [05971], neither shall they be written [03789] in the writing [03791] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], neither shall they enter [0935] into the land [0127] of Israel [03478]; and ye shall know [03045] that I am the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

⁸ Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because ye have spoken [01696] vanity [07723], and seen [02372] lies [03577], therefore, behold, I am against you, saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

¹⁶ To wit, the prophets [05030] of Israel [03478] which prophesy [05012] concerning Jerusalem [03389], and which see [02374] visions [02377] of peace [07965] for her, and there is no peace [07965], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

¹⁴ So will I break down [02040] the wall [07023] that ye have daubed [02902] with untempered [08602] morter, and bring [05060] it down to the ground [0776], so that the foundation [03247] thereof shall be discovered [01540], and it shall fall [05307], and ye shall be consumed [03615] in the midst [08432] thereof: and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].

¹² Lo, when the wall [07023] is fallen [05307], shall it not be said [0559] unto you, Where is the daubing [02915] wherewith ye have daubed [02902] it?