Ezekiel 13:8
in Ezekiel 13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 13
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Vers. 8, 9.) Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken idle words and have seen falsehood, behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God. And my hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God. LXX: Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God.
This site's exposition
I am against you
on Ezekiel 13:8-9
Because they “have uttered vain words and seen false visions,” the Lord says, “I am against you.” The sentence fits their office. The prophets who promised the nation safety are cut off from it, “Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Under the guise of prophets, this speech is against heretics, who speak empty words and see falsehood, and they persist in establishing their own doctrine. May the Lord Himself come against them and rise up, and may He stretch out His hand against them to strike, and may He not hold back in sparing them. And He threatens that they will not be among the assembly of the people of the Lord in the future, nor in His Church, but in the synagogue of the devil, nor will they be written in the house of Israel.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
): You have spoken vanity and seen lies; what they saw and what they said was all alike, a mere sham; they saw nothing, they said nothing, to the purpose, nothing that could be relied on or that deserved regard.
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Note, Those are in a woeful condition that have God against them. Woe, and a thousand woes, to those that have made him their enemy. In particular, they are sentenced to be excluded from all the privileges of the commonwealth of Israel, for they are adjudged to have forfeited them all (
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Therefore thus saith the Lord God,....
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָכֵ֗ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| כֹּ֤ה | koh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַר֙ | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֣י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
| יַ֚עַן | yaan | because | H3282 → | 99 times |
| דַּבֶּרְכֶ֣ם | daberkhem | have spoken you | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| שָׁ֔וְא | shav' | worthlessness | H7723 → | 53 times |
| וַחֲזִיתֶ֖ם | vachazitem | and you have seen | H2372 → | 55 times |
| כָּזָ֑ב | kazav | falsehood | H3577 → | 31 times |
| לָכֵן֙ | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| הִנְנִ֣י | hini | here I | H2005 → | 316 times |
| אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם | ʾaleikhem | [am] against you | H413 → | 5510 times |
| נְאֻ֖ם | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
לָכֵ֗ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
כֹּ֤הthus
kohH3541 →577 times
אָמַר֙he says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
יַ֚עַןbecause
yaanH3282 →99 times
דַּבֶּרְכֶ֣םhave spoken you
daberkhemH1696 →1141 times
שָׁ֔וְאworthlessness
shav'H7723 →53 times
וַחֲזִיתֶ֖םand you have seen
vachazitemH2372 →55 times
כָּזָ֑בfalsehood
kazavH3577 →31 times
לָכֵן֙<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
הִנְנִ֣יhere I
hiniH2005 →316 times
אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם[am] against you
ʾaleikhemH413 →5510 times
נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nahum 2:13“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 46:9
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
- Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
- 2 Kings 19:23
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut…
- Jeremiah 21:13
Through
Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 5:8
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Job 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every…
- Ezekiel 5:8
Through
Ezekiel 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 51:42
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
- Jeremiah 51:42
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.