Ézéchiel 13:20

Louis Segond

C'est pourquoi ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Voici, j'en veux à vos coussinets Par lesquels vous surprenez les âmes afin qu'elles s'envolent, Et je les arracherai de vos bras; Et je délivrerai les âmes Que vous cherchez à surprendre afin qu'elles s'envolent.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
C'est pourquoi ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel : voici, j'en [veux] � vos coussins, par lesquels vous s�duisez les �mes pour les faire voler [vers vous]; et je d�chirerai ces [coussins] de vos bras, et je ferai �chapper les �mes que vous avez attir�es afin qu'elles volent [vers vous].

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
C'est pourquoi, ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'�ternel: Voici j'en veux � vos coussinets, par le moyen desquels vous prenez les �mes comme des oiseaux, et je les arracherai de vos bras, et je d�livrerai les �mes que vous prenez au pi�ge comme des oiseaux.

Darby's French Translation
C'est pourquoi, ainsi dit le Seigneur, l'�ternel: Voici, j'en veux � vos coussinets pour que les �mes, que par eux vous prenez au pi�ge, s'envolent; et je les arracherai de dessus vos bras, et je ferai �chapper les �mes que vous prenez au pi�ge, les �mes,... afin qu'elles s'envolent;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Ezekiel 13:8, Ezekiel 13:9, Ezekiel 13:15, Ezekiel 13:16

to make them fly: or, into gardens

and will: 2 Timothy 3:8, 2 Timothy 3:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 23:30 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, behold, I [am] against your pillows,.... Not only had an abhorrence of them, but was determined to destroy them, detect their fallacies, and expose the folly of such actions, and them to shame and contempt:

wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly; to the places where they prophesied; into the toils and nets they spread for them, in order to catch them with their divinations and prophecies, and make a gain of them: or, "into the gardens", or "groves" o; there to commit idolatry, Isaiah 65:3;

and I will tear them from your arms; by which it seems that those pillows were not only put under the arms of those that came to inquire of these female prophets or fortune tellers; but they put them under their own arms, and lay upon them as if they were asleep, and in a trance or ecstasy; and so the kerchiefs or veils were upon their heads, which covered their faces, to show that they were quite retired from the world, and wholly attentive to the visions and revelations they pretended were made them by the Lord; and which they gave out, in this superstitious way, to the credulous people that flocked about them:

and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly; which were captivated with their superstitions; drawn into their nets and snares; decoyed into the gardens, where they were prevailed upon to sacrifice to idols, and were taken with their soothsaying and lying divinations; these the Lord promises to break the snare for them, and set them at liberty, and preserve them from that ruin and destruction they were ready to come into; see Psalms 124:7.

o לפרחות "in floralia", Junius Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius "in floridis hortis", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them, and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes inspired by the true God, as were Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, and Huldah; but an order of prophetesses was unknown among the people of God, and the existence of such a class in the last days of the kings of Judah was a fresh instance of declension into pagan usages.

Ezekiel 13:18-21. Render thus: “Woe to the women that” put charms on every finger-joint, that set veils upon heads of every height to ensnare souls. “Will ye” ensnare “the souls of my people,” and keep your own souls alive, and will ye profane my name “among my people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to” keep alive “the souls that should not live, by lying to my people” who listen to “a lie? Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold” I will come upon your charms, where ye are ensnaring the souls like birds; “and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go” free, “even the souls” which ye are ensnaring like birds. “Your” veils “also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be” ensnared; “and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”

Most ancient interpreters and many modern interpreters have understood the “pillows” (or charms) and “kerchiefs” (or veils), as appliances to which the sorcerers had resort in order to attract notice. The veil was a conspicuous ornament in the east - women whatever their “stature” (or, height) putting them on - and it was worn by magicians in order to seem more mysterious and awful.

Ezekiel 13:19

Pollute me - Profane Me by your false words, which ye pretend to be from Me.

Handfuls of barley - Such were the gifts with which men used to approach a seer (compare 1 Samuel 9:7-8; 1 Kings 14:3).

Ezekiel 13:20

To make them fly - If the marginal reading “into gardens” be adopted, it must mean, Ye entice men to the gardens or groves, where magical arts are practiced. That groves were used for this purpose and for idolatrous rites is notorious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 13:20. The souls that ye hunt to make them fly. — לפרחות lephorechoth, into the flower gardens, says Parkhurst. These false prophetesses decoyed men into these gardens, where probably some impure rites of worship were performed, as in that of אשרה Asherah or Venus. See Parkhurst under פרח.