Ezekiel 13:3

Ezekiel 13:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
• New International Version (NIV)This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
• English Standard Version (ESV)Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Context of Ezekiel 13:3

1Then the Lord gave this message to me: 2‘Son of man, speak my message to warn Israel's prophets. They are prophesying but they teach only their own ideas. Say to them, “Listen to this message from the Lord. This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to those foolish prophets. They have not seen any vision from me but they tell people their own ideas. 4People of Israel, your prophets have become like wild dogs that live among heaps of stones. 5They have not helped you to mend the broken walls of your city. The walls will not be strong enough to keep Israel's people safe on the day of the Lord. That is when I will allow your enemies to attack you.

Ezekiel 13:3 word by word

כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה ה֖וֹי עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֣ים הַנְּבָלִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֹלְכִ֛ים אַחַ֥ר רוּחָ֖ם וּלְבִלְתִּ֥י רָאֽוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• Woeהוֹיhôy · woe!H1945
• unto the foolishנָבָלnâbâl · foolishH5036
• prophetsנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• that followאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• that followהָלַךְhâlak · to go: followH1980
• their own spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• and have seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200

Cross-references for Ezekiel 13:3

• Ezekiel 13:18Say, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to those women who make pieces of cloth which they say have magic power. People tie them around their arms and their heads. Those women want to have power over people's lives. They think they can have power over other people's lives but they themselves will be safe.
• Ezekiel 34:2‘Son of man, you must speak my message to the shepherds of Israel to warn them. Tell them, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to you shepherds of Israel who only think about yourselves. Shepherds should take care of the sheep and feed them.
• Jeremiah 23:1The Lord says, ‘Terrible trouble will come to the rulers of my people. They should have taken care of my people, as shepherds take care of their sheep. Instead, they have caused them to run away.’
• Matthew 23:13Jesus spoke to the teachers of God's Law and the Pharisees. ‘It will be very bad for you,’ he said. ‘You are hypocrites! You have stopped people who wanted to go into the kingdom of heaven. It is like you have shut the door so that they cannot go in. Then you yourselves do not even go in.
• Luke 11:42It will be very bad for you Pharisees! When you grow spices to cook with food, you give a tenth part of these small things to God. You are right to obey this rule. But you do not do the most important things. You do not help people in a good way. You do not really love God. You should have done the important things as well as the other little things.
• 1 Corinthians 9:16I tell God's good news to people. But I have no reason to be proud because of that. It is something that I have to do. If I did not tell the good news, it would bring me great trouble.
• Proverbs 15:2When wise people speak, they show that knowledge is good. But when fools speak, they only say foolish things.
• Lamentations 2:14Your prophets have promised you many good things. Those good things will not happen. They should have told you that you should not do wrong things. If they had told you that, none of these troubles would have happened. The prophets do not tell you true messages from God and their dreams are false.
• Hosea 9:7The time for Israel's punishment has arrived! The Lord must now pay them back for their sins. The Israelites will soon know about it! You do many sins and you hate the Lord. Because of that, you say that his prophets are fools. You think that his messengers are crazy.
• Zechariah 11:15Then the Lord said to me, Zechariah, ‘Take again the tools of a useless shepherd.
• Matthew 23:16It will be very bad for you, teachers. You cannot see what is true, but you show people which way to go. You say to people, “You may make a promise by the name of the temple. Then it is not a serious promise. You do not have to do it. But you may also make a promise by the gold things in the temple. Then it is a serious promise, and you must do it.”
• Luke 11:40What fools you are! God made the inside of you as well as the outside. He knows all about you.
• 1 Timothy 6:4People like that think that they are very clever. But they do not really understand anything. They like to argue about things which are not important. They like to quarrel about words. As a result, people become jealous of one another, and they become angry with each other. They insult other people and they think bad things about them.
• 2 Timothy 3:9But they will not continue to do many more bad things. Everyone will see clearly that they are fools. That is what happened to Jannes and Jambres.
• Ezekiel 13:6The visions that these prophets see are false. They tell lies about what will happen. They say, ‘The Lord says this,’ when I have not sent them with any message. But they still think that what they say will really happen.
• Jeremiah 23:28If a prophet has a dream, he should say what it is. If a prophet receives a message from me, he should speak that message faithfully. But dreams are very different from my messages. Straw is not the same as wheat!

Commentaries on Ezekiel 13:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3That follow … nothing - Better in the margin. A true prophet (like Ezekiel) spoke “the word of the Lord,” and declared what he had seen “in the visions of God.” These pretenders are stigmatized in scorn “prophets out of their own hearts,” “seers of what they have not seen.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-3The basic difference between true and false prophets was clear. False prophets made up their own messages. True prophets spoke the word of the Lord. Now the false prophets would hear a message from the Lord. This message was about their own destruction. These messengers had been deceived, and they had also deceived others. Great sorrow and judgment were coming upon them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. foolish--though vaunting as though exclusively possessing "wisdom" (1Co 1:19-21); the fear of God being the only beginning of wisdom (Psa 111:10). their own spirit--instead of the Spirit of God. A threefold distinction lay between the false and the true prophets: (1) The source of their messages respectively; of the false, "their own hearts"; of the true, an object presented to the spiritual sense (named from the noblest of the senses, a seeing) by the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings