Ezequiel 13:1-10

1 E veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, profetiza contra os profetas de Israel e dize a esses videntes que só profetizam o que vê o seu coração: Ouvi a palavra do Senhor.

3 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ai dos profetas insensatos, que seguem o seu próprio

4 Os teus profetas, ó Israel, têm sido como raposas nos desertos.

5 Não subistes �s brechas, nem fizestes uma cerca para a casa de Israel, para que permaneça firme na peleja no dia do Senhor.

6 Viram vaidade e adivinhação mentirosa os que dizem: O Senhor diz; quando o Senhor não os enviou; e esperam que seja cumprida a palavra.

7 Acaso não tivestes visão de vaidade, e não falastes adivinhação mentirosa, quando dissestes: O Senhor diz; sendo que eu tal não falei?

8 Portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: Porque tendes falado vaidade, e visto mentiras, por isso eis que eu sou contra vós, diz o Senhor Deus.

9 E a minha mão será contra os profetas que vêem vaidade e que adivinham mentira; não estarão no concílio do meu povo, nem nos registros da casa de Israel se escreverão, nem entrarão na terra de Israel; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor Deus.

10 Portanto, sim, porquanto desviaram o meu povo, dizendo: Paz; e não há paz; e quando se edifica uma parede, eis que a rebocam de argamassa fraca;

Ezequiel 13:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 13

It being said in Eze 12:24; that there should be no more a vain vision, nor a flattering divination; the prophet is ordered to prophesy against the false prophets and prophetesses, Eze 13:1,2,17; the former are described as prophesying out of their own hearts, Eze 13:2; as foolish ones, following their own spirit, and seeing nothing, Eze 13:3; they are compared to foxes in the deserts, Eze 13:4; and are represented as unconcerned to stand in the gap for the people, Eze 13:5; and as seeing vanity and lying divination; wherefore the Lord was against them, Eze 13:6-8; what they are threatened with are, that they should not be in the assembly of God's people; nor written in the writing of the house of Israel; nor enter into the land of Israel, Eze 13:9; the reason of which was, because they seduced the Lord's people, by speaking peace to them when there was none; which is figuratively expressed by building a wall, and daubing it with untempered mortar, Eze 13:10; upon which the wall is threatened to be rent, and caused to fall with a stormy wind; signifying the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army; and the false prophets to have the wrath of God poured on them who doubted it, Eze 13:11-16; and then follows the order to the prophet to prophesy against the false prophetesses, and set his face against them, and pronounce woe upon them in the name of the Lord; who are described as prophesying out of their own hearts; sowing pillows to all armholes; and making kerchiefs on the head of all sorts of persons; and which they did for poor small gain, and to the detriment of immortal souls, good and bad, Eze 13:17-19; wherefore the Lord threatens to tear off their pillows and kerchiefs, and deliver his people out of their hands, no more to be hunted by them, Eze 13:20,21; the reason of which was, because they saddened the hearts of the righteous, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, Eze 13:22; and the chapter is concluded with a resolution that they should see no more vanity nor divine divinations; and that the Lord's people should be delivered from them, and they should know that he was the Lord, Eze 13:23.