20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will have to do with your pillows, wherewith ye hunt the [a]souls to make them to flee, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them to flee.

21 Your veils also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hands to be hunted, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

22 Because with your lies ye have made the heart of the [b]righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 13:20 That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should depart from the body.
  2. Ezekiel 13:22 By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.

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