What Does Ezekiel 21:29 Mean in the King James?
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A false oracle can masquerade as sight while steering you toward the slain.
THE MEANING
False sight and false prediction can direct you toward the slain; the violence in the verse remains stark, with the wicked reaching their appointed day. The crookedness named here reaches its end, while its consequences remain visible. The verse exposes how a lie that claims insight can help carry you into ruin.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a confident vision is reliable because it claims access to what you cannot see. False certainty can direct you into death.
THE ROOT
כָּזָב
kazav
GROWS FROM
כזב
Lie, deceive, fail, or prove false.
“lie” in this verse is kazav. This root supplies forms for both deceiving and failing or proving false. The oracle’s claim to show a way forward collapses into the scene of the slain.
ALSO GROWS
kizzev: To lie or deceive.
כִּזֵּב
The lie in the verse belongs to the same root family as the act of deceiving.
nikhzav: To fail or prove false.
נִכְזָב
This branch reveals the lie’s failure: its claim of insight does not hold.
קֹסְמִים
qosemim
GROWS FROM
קסם
Practice divination.
“divine” in this verse is qosemim. The verse names a practice of divination alongside the falsehood it produces. Its warning concerns a claim to hidden knowledge, not only a stray mistaken statement.
ALSO GROWS
qosem: A diviner.
קֹסֵם
The plural form in this verse belongs to the same family as the person who practices divination.
qesem: Divination.
קֶסֶם
This noun names the practice behind the false prediction.
רְשָׁעִים
resha'im
GROWS FROM
רשע
Act wickedly or be guilty.
This root can name the wicked person and the wickedness itself. The verse places the wicked at their day of reckoning as their wrongdoing reaches its end.
ALSO GROWS
rasha: A wicked person.
רָשָׁע
This singular form shares the root of the plural group named in the verse.
resha: Wickedness.
רֶשַׁע
The root links the people described as wicked with the condition their day brings to its limit.
THE PATTERN
Falsehood can claim to reveal what is hidden, yet its direction carries people toward ruin.
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.THE THREAD
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?The word translated “lie” shares the Hebrew root כזב with the false oracle in Ezekiel. Numbers sets that failing falsehood beside speech that holds true and is made good.
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