13:10 “ ‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,”9 when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar,10 they coat it with whitewash.
tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202–3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.