Ezekiel 13:5
Ye have not gone up into the breaches, Nor built a wall about the house of Israel,- to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4As jackals, among ruins, thy prophets O Israel have been.
Cross References
Exodus 32:11And Moses besought the face of Yahweh his God,—and said—Wherefore, O Yahweh, should thine anger kindle upon thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great might and with a firm hand?
Numbers 16:47Then took Aaron, as Moses spake, and ran into the midst of the convocation, and lo! the plague had begun among the people,—so he placed the incense, and put a propitiatory-covering over the people:
Job 40:9But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,
Psalms 106:23Then would he have bidden to destroy them,—had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.
Isaiah 13:6Howl ye! for at hand is the day of Yahweh,—As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come.
Isaiah 27:4Fury, have I none,—Oh that there were delivered to me briars and thorns, in battle! I would march in among them I would set fire to them one and all.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 13:2-10
The Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord ; 3 Thus saith the Lord God ; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to… Read the whole commentary →