4 Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

Other Translations of Ezekiel 13:4

King James Version

4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

English Standard Version

4 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.

The Message

4 Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals scavenging through the ruins.

New King James Version

4 O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts.

New Living Translation

4 "O people of Israel, these prophets of yours are like jackals digging in the ruins.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 13:4

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.