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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 13:23 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 13:23 |
Strong Concordance |
Therefore ye shall see [02372] no more vanity [07723], nor divine [07080] divinations [07081]: for I will deliver [05337] my people [05971] out of your hand [03027]: and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| ye shall see no more vanity--The event shall confute your lies, involving yourselves in destruction (Eze 13:9; Eze 14:8; Eze 15:7; Mic 3:6). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| See no more vanity - They shall see all their predictions vanish, which shall so confound them, that they shall pretend no more to visions. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Ye shall see no more vanity - They pretended visions; but they were empty of reality.
Nor divine divinations - As God would not speak to them, they employed demons. Where God is not, because of the iniquity of the people, the devil is, to strengthen and support that iniquity. And if he cannot have his priests, he will have his priestesses; and these will have a Church like themselves, full of lying doctrines, and bad works. |
6 Therefore night [03915] shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision [02377]; and it shall be dark [02821] [02821] unto you, that ye shall not divine [07080]; and the sun [08121] shall go down [0935] over the prophets [05030], and the day [03117] shall be dark [06937] over them.
7 And I will set [05414] my face [06440] against them; they shall go out [03318] from one fire [0784], and another fire [0784] shall devour [0398] them; and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], when I set [07760] my face [06440] against them.
8 And I will set [05414] my face [06440] against that man [0376], and will make [08074] him a sign [0226] and a proverb [04912], and I will cut him off [03772] from the midst [08432] of my people [05971]; and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
9 And mine hand [03027] shall be upon the prophets [05030] that see [02374] vanity [07723], and that divine [07080] lies [03577]: they shall not be in the assembly [05475] of my people [05971], neither shall they be written [03789] in the writing [03791] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], neither shall they enter [0935] into the land [0127] of Israel [03478]; and ye shall know [03045] that I am the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].