Ezekiel 22:28
Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- prophets
- The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.
- Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 13:10–16; Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 8:10, 11
- seeing
- Ezekiel 13:22, 23; Ezekiel 21:29; Jeremiah 23:25–32; Lamentations 2:14; Zephaniah 3:4
- Thus saith the Lord
- Ezekiel 13:6, 7; Jeremiah 23:21; Jeremiah 28:2, 15; Jeremiah 29:8, 9; Jeremiah 37:19