Mazmur 95:10

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted ¹  with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ² 

they do not obey my commands.’ ³ 

Yeremia 23:32

23:32 I, the Lord, affirm ⁴  that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. ⁵  I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. ⁶  I, the Lord, affirm it!” ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 13:10

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ⁸  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ⁹  they coat it with whitewash.

[95:10]  ¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10]  ² tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10]  ³ tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

[23:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[23:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.

[23:32]  ⁶ sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.

[23:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[13:10]  ⁸ tn Or “peace.”

[13:10]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.