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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Ezekiel 13:3

They shall be doubly miserable, suffering with the deceived, and suffering by the enraged, when their lies are detected. Foolish prophets; either in a moral sense, i. e. wicked; or in a literal sense, unwise. It is both foolishly wicked and imprudent to pretend revelations, and yet have none from God. Their own spirit; in contradistinction to the Spirit of God, the true Spirit of prophecy, they strongly fancy what they would have, and then presumptuously prophesy that it shall come to pass. Have seen nothing; God hath showed them no vision, nothing of all they pretend to is from God.

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See also Ezekiel 13:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT FOLLOW ... NOTHING - Better in the margin. A true prophet (like Ezekiel) spoke “the word of the Lord,” and declared what he had seen “in the visions of God.” These pretenders are stigmatized in s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 13:1. And now the Lord speaks through Ezekiel about the false prophets in the midst of His people. They prophesied out of their own hearts; or as it might be rendered, “Who prophesy from their...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 13. DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1) AND PROPHETESSES (EZEKIEL 13:17). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezekiel threatened, the people were deluded by the welcome and reass...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. foolish. Hebrew. _nabel._ See note on Proverbs 1:7. THEIR OWN SPIRIT. Not the Holy Spirit. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _roach._ App-9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The lying prophets are like foxes among the ruins (1) Ezekiel 13:1. The inspiration of these prophets is not from the spirit of God but from their own heart. (2) Ezekiel 13:4. Consequently so far as...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _foolish prophets_ The word, not used again by Ezekiel, is rather a moral term, meaning destitute of that wisdom the beginning of which is the fear of the Lord (Psalms 13:1). Jeremiah charges the prop...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING— Who give their own imaginations for true prophesies, and pretend to have visions, when they never had any....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. TWO SCATHING ORACLES DELIVERED 13:1-23 In chapter 13 Ezekiel directs his attack against those who spawned the blasphemous proverbs which he has just refuted in Ezekiel 12:21-28. Ezekiel denounce...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS - through vaunting as though exclusively possessing "wisdo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 GOD WILL PUNISH THE FALSE *PROPHETS – EZEKIEL 13:1-23...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOOLISH PROPHETS. — They were certainly foolish who undertook to forge the name of the Omniscient, as it were, to utterances of their own devising. Folly according to the use of the word in the Old Te...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הֹ֖וי עַל ־הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed under the g...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next movement in the prophesying was a denunciation of false prophets and prophetesses. The prophets were not inspired by the Spirit of God, but followed their own spirit. In so doing they had, li...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Nothing. Yet would lead the blind, though they are not directed by God._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat very striking and awful in this scripture. One should hardly conceive it possible that any men, much less a multitude of men, should ever go forward unsent, and without authority fro...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    _Woe to, the foolish _or disgraceful _prophets _ נבל, _nebel_, signifies “a vile person,” “a castaway,” just as נבלה, _nebeleh_, means “foulness,” “crime,” “wickedness,” although נבל, _nebel_, is ofte...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. Chapter 13 judges the prophets who deceived the people in Jerusalem by their pretended visions of peace. In chapter 14 the elders of Israel come an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS,.... The false prophets, as the Targum; who are foolish, as all are who are not sent of God, and furnished by him with wisdom and knowledge, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! Ver. 3. _Woe unto the foolish prophets._] Wise enough they were in their generation - and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel_ So they called themselves, as if none but they had been worthy of the name of Israel's prophets, who were indeed Israel's deceivers. _Say unto the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS, vaunting themselves with a wisdom which was nothing but foolishness in the sight of God, THAT FOLLOW THEIR...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOLLOW: _ Heb._ walk after AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING: Or, and things which they have not seen...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 prophet...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 13:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Woe H1945 foolish H5036 prophets H5030 follow H1980 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1). ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts, ‘You, hear...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message against lying prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Since the devil is the father of lies, those put the highest affront upon God who, claiming to be his prophets, tell l...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 13:3. _Woe to the foolish prophets oh Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts._ The vineyards in rough and rocky places, like our bramble, produced the most delicious grapes. Th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Them that prophesy out of their own hearts._ THE FALSE PROPHET To be a false prophet seems to us, indeed, an enormity. To have the great gift and trust of prophecy, and then to misuse it; to be admi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:1 Chapters Ezekiel 13:1 condemn those who speak false prophecy (ch. Ezekiel 13:1) and ig

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (4.) OF FALSE PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES (Chap. 13) _Condemnation of the Prophets_ (Ezekiel 13:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The declaration in Ezekiel 12:24 was that unsubstantiated and delusive prophecy shou...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 13:1 Another interval follows, and then a fresh and fuller burst of inspiration, manifestly in close connection with Ezekiel 12:21, and to be read in combination with Jer

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 13. THE FALSE IN PROPHECY, ITS CHARACTER AND DOOM. A VERY close connection exists between the subject of this chapter and the one immediately preceding. The former had denounced the false exp...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say unto them that prophesy is out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; T...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:9; Ezekiel 13:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Foolish prophets — Foolish prophets are not of God's sending: for whom he sends, he either finds fit, or makes fit. Where he gives warrant, he gives wisdom. Their own spirit — Not the spirit of God. S...

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