Ezekiel 13:12

Translations

Modern

Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’

Traditional

Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

Literal

And behold, when the wall has fallen, it will not be said to you, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you plastered it?’

Latin

Siquidem ecce cecidit paries: numquid non dicetur vobis: Ubi est litura quam linistis?

Original

Hebrew

English

Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it? ’

Notes

Ezekiel 13:10–16

The people's "righteousness" was like a weak wall ready to fall. Instead of urging the people to repent and build their wall properly, the false prophets just painted over it. They told the people that peace would come to Jerusalem.

This made the wall look stronger than it was. A heavy rainstorm would reveal its true weakness. Water would seep into the unsealed cracks, wash away the mortar, and cause the stones to fall.

In this case, the storm would be the great flood of God's anger, which would destroy the people's false righteousness and the false prophets who supported it. Meanwhile, they would find no peace.

Ezekiel 12:21–14:11

The messages in this section address the issue of true and false prophecy.

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Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

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Judges 10:14
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
Lamentations 2:14–15
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
Jeremiah 29:31–32
“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
2 Kings 3:13
Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
Jeremiah 37:19
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
Judges 9:38
“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
Deuteronomy 32:37
He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

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