5 "You have not gone up into the breaches , nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 13:5

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.