3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
3 Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
3 God, the Master, pronounces doom on the empty-headed prophets who do their own thing and know nothing of what's going on!
3 Thus says the Lord God: "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits the false prophets who are following their own imaginations and have seen nothing at all!'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 13:3
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.