What Does Ezekiel 22:28 Mean in the King James?
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
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 prophetic word can plaster over a breach and wear God’s authority without making the wall whole.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now wherever a religious voice smooths over a real breach and claims the LORD has spoken when the LORD has not. Its reassuring surface hides the wound; the claim itself supplies no repair.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message does not become God’s word because it is delivered with prophetic certainty or spoken in God’s name.
THE ROOT
כָּזָב
kāzāb
GROWS FROM
כזב
To lie, prove false, fail, or disappoint.
“lies” in this verse is kāzāb. The same root names a lie, a stream that fails, and words proved false. Here the prophet’s claim promises assurance but cannot hold what it places over the breach.
ALSO GROWS
ʾakhzāb: A failing or deceptive stream (Jeremiah 15:18).
אַכְזָב
This related form depicts deceit as a source that dries up when relied on.
yakhzivēnî: Will prove me false or make me a liar (Job 24:25).
יַכְזִיבֵנִי
Here the root names the test that exposes a claim as false.
THE PATTERN
A soothing religious surface can conceal a breach while declaring it healed.
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.THE THREAD
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?The word for “lies” here and the word rendered “a liar” in Jeremiah draw on כזב, a root also linked to a stream that fails. The shared root pictures false assurance as something that seems available to depend on but gives no support.
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