Ezekiel 13:7 Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, "The LORD declares," though I have not spoken?

◄ Ezekiel 13:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, "The LORD declares," though I have not spoken?

English Standard Version
Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the LORD,’ although I have not spoken?”

New American Standard Bible
"Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, 'The LORD declares,' but it is not I who have spoken?"'"

King James Bible
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Didn't you see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you proclaimed, 'This is the LORD's declaration,' even though I had not spoken?"

International Standard Version
You've crafted a false prophesy and spoken deceptive divination, haven't you? But then you say, "�declares the LORD," although I haven't spoken a single word.

American Standard Version
Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken.

Darby Bible Translation
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and spoken a lying divination, when ye say, Jehovah saith; and I have not spoken?

Young's Literal Translation
A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have not spoken?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:1-9 Where God gives a warrant to do any thing, he gives wisdom. What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard, as that is which the ministers of Christ deliver. They were not praying prophets, had no intercourse with Heaven; they contrived how to please people, not how to do them good; they stood not against sin. They flattered people into vain hopes. Such widen the breach, by causing men to think themselves deserving of eternal life, when the wrath of God abides upon them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. made others to hope, &c.—rather, "they hoped" to confirm (that is, 'make good') their word, by the event corresponding to their prophecy. The Hebrew requires this [Havernick]. Also the parallel clause, "they have seen vanity," implies that they believed their own lie (2Th 2:11). Subjective revelation is false unless it rests on the objective.