Ezekiel 13:9

9 I will raise my fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make lying predictions, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. I will blot their names from Israel’s record books, and they will never again set foot in their own land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD .

Ezekiel 13:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 13:9

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;
shall have no place in the church of God, nor fellowship with the saints; they shall not join with them in religious worship here; but either shall be left by the righteous judgment of God to separate themselves from them, or shall be excluded their communion; and much less shall they stand in the congregation of the righteous hereafter: or, "they shall not be in the secret", or "council of my people" ^F7; shall not be consulted by them on any account, civil or religious; or not be let into the secret counsels of the Lord, as the Lord's people be, who are his favourites and his friends; see ( Psalms 25:14 ) . The Targum is,

``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;
their names shall not be in the roll or register of those that return from captivity, as in Ezra it but shall die in their exile; they shall not be in the list and catalogue of the citizens of any city in the land of Israel, particularly of Jerusalem, the chief city; see ( Isaiah 4:3 ) ; and it should appear that their names were never written in the Lamb's book of life; or that they ever were among the number of God's elect, the true and spiritual Israel of God. So the Targum,

``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;
should not return to the land of Israel, when the captives should at the end of the captivity; nor enter into the land of Canaan, the heavenly rest, which remains for the people of God; for into the New Jerusalem state shall nothing enter that makes an abomination, or a lie, as these prophets had done; see ( Revelation 21:27 ) ( 22:15 ) ; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord God;
omniscient, omnipotent, true and faithful, holy, just, and good.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (wyhy al yme dwob) "in secreto populi mei non erunt", Montanus; "in arcano", Munster; "in comilio", Junius & Tremellius, Calvin, Polanus; "in concilio", Vatablus.

Ezekiel 13:9 In-Context

7 Can your visions be anything but false if you claim, ‘This message is from the LORD,’ when I have not even spoken to you?

8 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because what you say is false and your visions are a lie, I will stand against you, says the Sovereign LORD .

9 I will raise my fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make lying predictions, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. I will blot their names from Israel’s record books, and they will never again set foot in their own land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD .

10 “This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying, ‘All is peaceful’ when there is no peace at all! It’s as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash!

11 Tell these whitewashers that their wall will soon fall down. A heavy rainstorm will undermine it; great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down.