10 "It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying , ' Peace !' when there is no peace . And when anyone builds a wall , behold , they plaster it over with whitewash ; 11 so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash , that it will fall . A flooding rain will come , and you, O hailstones e , will fall ; and a violent wind will break out. 12 "Behold , when the wall has fallen , will you not be asked , 'Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?"' 13 Therefore , thus says the Lord GOD , "I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath . There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones e to consume it in wrath . 14 "So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground , so that its foundation is laid bare ; and when it falls , you will be consumed in its midst . And you will know that I am the Lord . 15 "Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash ; and I will say to you, 'The wall is gone and its plasterers are gone , 16 along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem , and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace ,' declares the Lord GOD .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 13:10-16
Commentary on Ezekiel 13:10-16
(Read Ezekiel 13:10-16)
One false prophet built the wall, set up the notion that Jerusalem should be victorious, and made himself acceptable by it. Others made the matter yet more plausible and promising; they daubed the wall which the first had built; but they would, ere long, be undeceived when their work was beaten down by the storm of God's just wrath; when the Chaldean army desolated the land. Hopes of peace and happiness, not warranted by the word of God, will cheat men; like a wall well daubed, but ill built.