Lamentationes 22:28

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Prophetae autem eius liniebant eis omnia calce, videntes vana et divinantes eis mendacium, dicentes: "Haec dicit Dominus Deus", cum Dominus non sit locutus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Prophet� autem ejus liniebant eos absque temperamento, videntes vana, et divinantes eis mendacium, dicentes : H�c dicit Dominus Deus : cum Dominus non sit locutus.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Prophet� autem ejus liniebant eos absque temperamento, videntes vana, et divinantes eis mendacium, dicentes: H�c dicit Dominus Deus: cum Dominus non sit locutus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

prophets: The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes - the antecedent to them to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge. Ezekiel 22:25, Ezekiel 13:10-16, Isaiah 30:10, Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:11

seeing: Ezekiel 13:22, Ezekiel 13:23, Ezekiel 21:29, Jeremiah 23:25-32, Lamentations 2:14, Zephaniah 3:4

Thus saith the Lord: Ezekiel 13:6, Ezekiel 13:7, Jeremiah 23:21, Jeremiah 28:2, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 29:8, Jeremiah 29:9, Jeremiah 37:19

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:11 - Thus saith 2 Chronicles 18:10 - Thus Psalms 22:13 - as a Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Amos 2:4 - and their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar,.... Palliated their sins, declared it to be right to shed the blood they did; and seize on the estates of men; but this, though it might for a while satisfy the consciences of these princes, and stop the clamours of the people against them; yet would not last long, but be like the building of a wall with bad stuff, which will not stand; and daubing it with mortar, which will soon wash off. So the Targum,

"and the false prophets which are in the midst of her are like to those that build a wall, and daub it with mere clay, without straw;''

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Seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them; pretending visions from God, when what they see, or pretend to see, is nothing but vanity and emptiness, mere delusions; and prophesying good things, peace and prosperity, when they are all lies; giving out they have messages from God, and are ordered to foretell that happy times will be, when it is all falsehood:

saying, thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken; herein mimicking the true prophets, who came in the name of the Lord, and usually prefaced their prophecies with a thus saith the Lord; and so did these false prophets, when the Lord said nothing to them, and gave them no commission to speak in his name, or say the things they did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people.

Ezekiel 22:26

Violated - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office of the priests to keep up the distinction between “holy” and “unholy,” “clean” and “unclean” Leviticus 10:10.

Ezekiel 22:28

See the marginal reference note.

Ezekiel 22:30

The land might be said to perish for the lack of such interpositions as saved their forefathers when Moses “stood in the gap.” This was a proof of the general corruption, that there was not in the city sufficient righteousness to save it from utter destruction. Prince, prophet, priest, all fail.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 22:28. Her prophets — Even those who profess themselves to be my prophets, have been unfaithful in the discharge of their office; have soothed the people in their sins, and pretended to have oracles of peace and safety when I had not spoken to them.