
Exploring the 10 Commandments: The Ninth Command
Emma Danzey
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
that divine lies
Meaning, by his hand, not the true spirit of prophecy, attended with a divine power and energy, as in ( Ezekiel 1:3 ) ( 3:14 ) ; but the wrath and power of God seizing on them and punishing them. So the Targum,
``and the stroke of my power shall be upon the false prophets, &c.''The sense is, that they should feel the weight of his hand, and the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his wrath, by inflicting punishment upon them: they shall not be in the assembly of my people;
``in the good secret which is hidden for my people they shall not be:''neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel;
``and in the writing of eternal life, which is written for the righteous of the house of Israel, they shall not be written;''see ( Psalms 69:28 ) ; neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;