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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the LORD’s word: See also: Ezekiel 13:17Jeremiah 37:19Isaiah 9:15The Lord GOD says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! See also: Lamentations 2:14Jeremiah 23:28-32Hosea 9:7Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. See also: Revelation 19:20Micah 3:52 Thessalonians 2:9-10You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the LORD’s day. See also: Ezekiel 22:30Isaiah 58:12Psalms 106:23They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘The LORD says;’ but the LORD has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. See also: Ezekiel 22:28Jeremiah 29:8Jeremiah 28:15Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘The LORD says;’ but I have not spoken?” See also: Matthew 24:23-24Ezekiel 13:6Ezekiel 13:2-3“‘Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Ezekiel 21:3Ezekiel 5:8Nahum 2:13“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.” See also: Psalms 69:28Psalms 87:6Ezra 2:59“‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash. See also: Ezekiel 13:16Ezekiel 22:28Jeremiah 8:11Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it. See also: Ezekiel 38:22Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 29:6Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?” See also: Jeremiah 29:31-32Jeremiah 2:28Jeremiah 37:19“‘Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. See also: Isaiah 30:30Psalms 148:8Revelation 11:19So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 6:15Micah 1:6Jeremiah 14:15Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it— See also: Psalms 62:3Nehemiah 4:3Isaiah 30:13to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord GOD.’” See also: Jeremiah 6:14Ezekiel 13:10Jeremiah 8:11You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, See also: Ezekiel 13:22 Kings 22:14Revelation 2:20and say, “The Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves? See also: 2 Peter 2:14Ezekiel 13:20Ezekiel 22:25You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’ See also: Micah 3:5Proverbs 28:21Ezekiel 22:26“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against your magic bands, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls fly free, even the souls whom you ensnare like birds. See also: Ezekiel 13:182 Timothy 3:8-9Ezekiel 13:8-9I will also tear your veils and deliver my people out of your hand; and they will no longer be in your hand to be ensnared. Then you will know that I am the LORD. See also: Psalms 91:3Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive. See also: Jeremiah 23:14Jeremiah 14:13-17Ezekiel 9:4Therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” See also: Ezekiel 13:21Micah 3:6Ezekiel 12:24
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 13:2
Ver. 2. Heart; what pleases them, (H.) without being inspired. There were always such impostors. These deluded the people at Jerusalem, (C.) or at Babylon. v. 9. Sanct. --- They might be distinguished by the sincere: yet caused irreparable injury to the ignorant people. H.
↑ 2Ezekiel 13:3
Ver. 3. Nothing. Yet would lead the blind, though they are not directed by God.
↑ 3Ezekiel 13:4
Ver. 4. Deserts, or ruins. They sought only to gratify themselves.
↑ 4Ezekiel 13:5
Ver. 5. Enemy. You do not admonish sinners of their evil ways, nor strive to avert God's indignation, in imitation of true prophets, (Ex. xxxii. 10.) but rather undermine the wall like foxes.
↑ 5Ezekiel 13:9
Ver. 9. Upon, to punish. --- Counsel. They shall not be consulted, or have any credit. --- Writing.
They shall perish in the city, or in banishment. C. --- Their works shall not be accounted canonical. Sixt. Bib. ii. 2.
↑ 9Ezekiel 13:10
Ver. 10. Straw. Iniquity ruins my people, (C.) and these do not endeavour to reform their manners. H. --- They ought to demolish such a work, and not dab it over. Theod. --- One false prophet builds, and another strives to support his authority; (Jun.) or God has given the people his law, but these people corrupt it. S. Jer. --- A wall built without proper mortar, will easily be washed down: so vain hopes of security, without amendment, deceive the people. W.
↑ 10Ezekiel 13:11
Ver. 11. Hailstones. Lit. "stones," like those which fell on the enemies of Josue, (x. 11. H.) or thunderbolts. Grot. C. --- Such will be the fate of all the buildings of the wicked. Mat. vii. 27.
H. --- None can resist the judgments of God, who will employ the Chaldeans.
M.
↑ 11Ezekiel 13:14
Ver. 14. You. Lit. "it." But Heb. and Sept. have, "ye." H. --- The wall and the inhabitants shall perish. C.
↑ 14Ezekiel 13:17
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 17. Daughters: so false prophets are styled in scorn, (Vat.) or witches; (Rabbins) though it seems rather that there were false prophetesses as well as true ones. Such were Prisca and Maximilla among the Montanists. Women have commonly fostered heresies. C. --- These pretended to be illuminated, like Debora and Holda; but flattered the people in their sins, instead of reclaiming them. W.
↑ 17Ezekiel 13:18
Ver. 18. Cushions, by making people easy in their sins, and promising them impunity, (Ch.) by disguising the truth, or not admonishing people of their danger. C. iii. 17. He alludes to the cushions used on sofas. --- Pillows. Sym.
"veils;" (Sept. and Kimchi) or "nets" designed "to take"
the unwary; as mispachot maybe properly rendered. v. 20, 21. Is. v. 7. C. ---
Souls. That is, they flattered them with promises of life, peace, and security.
Ch. W. --- People are often said to do what they only announce. Lev. xiii. 11.
These impostors pretended to save, while they really destroyed. They shewed a cruel mercy, detaining the people in captivity, or rather Heb. "shall you catch?" &c. Do you expect to pass unpunished? C. --- We might read the Vulg.
"Did they give?"
&c. Prot. "Will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?" H.
↑ 18Ezekiel 13:19
Ver. 19. Violated me. That is, dishonoured and discredited me. Ch. --- Prot.
"and will ye pollute?" &c. H. --- They employed the name of God to give credit to their lies, for the smallest advantage. --- Souls, &c. That is, to sentence souls to death, which are not to die: and to promise life to them who are not to live. Ch. --- They contradicted Jeremias, who exhorted the people to surrender.
C.
↑ 19Ezekiel 13:20
Ver. 20. Catch. Hebrew also, "hunt the souls to make them into gardens, (H.) or flourishing."
Sept. "you gather souls there." The original seems to be incorrect. v. 18.
↑ 20Ezekiel 13:22
Ver. 22. Just. Jeremias, or any other, particularly the more simple, who were easily seduced and filled with apprehensions. You shall therefore die, (v. 23.) and your imposture shall be made known. C.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses