Ezekiel 13:12 When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, "Where is the whitewash you covered it with?"

◄ Ezekiel 13:12 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, "Where is the whitewash you covered it with?"

English Standard Version
And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’

New American Standard Bible
"Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, 'Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?'"

King James Bible
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, 'Where is the coat of whitewash that you put on it?"

International Standard Version
Look! When the wall collapses, won't it be said of you, 'Where's the coat of paint that you spread all over the wall?'

American Standard Version
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to you: Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?

Darby Bible Translation
And lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed it?

Young's Literal Translation
And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where is the daubing that ye daubed?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:10-16 One false prophet built the wall, set up the notion that Jerusalem should be victorious, and made himself acceptable by it. Others made the matter yet more plausible and promising; they daubed the wall which the first had built; but they would, ere long, be undeceived when their work was beaten down by the storm of God's just wrath; when the Chaldean army desolated the land. Hopes of peace and happiness, not warranted by the word of God, will cheat men; like a wall well daubed, but ill built.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. shall it not be said—Your vanity and folly shall be so manifested that it shall pass into a proverb, "Where is the daubing?"