The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 13:20
To make them fly , etc.; rather, with the Revised Version and Ewald, as if they were birds, carrying out the thought that the amulets on the arms of the prophetesses, and the veil cast over the heads of the votaries, were like the snare of the fowler. So the threat that follows, that the amulets should be torn off and the veil rent, is practically equivalent to the promise that the victims should be "delivered out of the snare of the fowler" ( Psalms 91:3 ; Psalms 124:7 ). They should... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 13:19
Will ye pollute me , etc.? rather, with the Revised Version, ye have profaned, the interrogative form not being continued in the Hebrew. The prophet dwells with scorn on the miserable pay for which the prophetesses were guilty of so great a sin. Not for rewards of divination, like those of Balsam ( Numbers 22:7 ), but for gifts like those bestowed on the harlot or the beggar (l Samuel 2:36; Hosea 3:2 )— for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread —they plied their wretched trade. For... read more