^13:9My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council⁷ of my people, nor be written in the registry⁸ of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

^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. ^13:11Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones¹¹ will fall and a violent wind will break out.¹²^13:12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

^13:13“ ‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury. ^13:14I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,¹³ and you will know that I am the Lord. ^13:15I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more—^13:16those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem¹⁴ and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the sovereign Lord.’

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Footnotes

7 The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the Lord (Jer 23:18; Job 15:8), but here it more likely refers to a human council comprised of civic leaders (Gen 49:6; Jer 6:11; 15:17 Ps 64:3; 111:1).
8 The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
9 Or “peace.”
10 The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [], 1:) it is also used in the 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.
11 Heb “and you, O hailstones.”
12 A violent wind will break out. God’s judgments are frequently described in storm imagery (Pss 18:7–15; 77:17–18; 83:15; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Jer 23:19; 30:23).
13 Or “within it,” referring to the city of Jerusalem.
14 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .