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Ezekiel 13:14
I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses false prophets in Ezekiel 13 who coated a failing wall with whitewash, delivering this declaration immediately after announcing a coming storm of wrath. The words — וְ/הָ֨רַסְתִּ֜י (ve./Ha.ras.Ti) translates "and I will tear down," acting directly on הַ/קִּ֨יר (ha./Kir), the wall the prophets falsely stabilized with תָּפֵ֛ל (ta.Fel), whitewash. The thread — The dismantling of a false structure echoes Micah 1:6, where God reduces a city to rubble, while Jeremiah 14:15 records the same divine judgment against unauthorized prophets. Why it lands — The verse states that leveling the foundation will cause the city to fall and the whitewashers to perish, requiring the reader to acknowledge God's sovereign authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 6:15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
- Micah 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
- Ezekiel 13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 13:23 therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
- Habakkuk 3:13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah
- Psalms 11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
- Jeremiah 8:12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
- Ezekiel 13:21 I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands, so that they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.