6 "They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying , 'The Lord declares ,' when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word . 7 " Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said , 'The Lord declares ,' but it is not I who have spoken ?""' 8 Therefore , thus says the Lord GOD , "Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie , therefore behold , I am against you," declares the Lord GOD . 9 "So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations . They will have no place in the council of My people , nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel , nor will they enter the land of Israel , that you may know that I am the Lord GOD .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 13:6-9
Commentary on Ezekiel 13:1-9
(Read Ezekiel 13:1-9)
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 prophets, had no intercourse with Heaven; they contrived how to please people, not how to do them good; they stood not against sin. They flattered people into vain hopes. Such widen the breach, by causing men to think themselves deserving of eternal life, when the wrath of God abides upon them.