John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies ,.... Meaning, by his hand, not the true spirit of prophecy, attended with a divine power and energy, as in Ezekiel 1:3 ; but the wrath and power of God seizing on them and punishing them. So the Targum, "and the stroke of my power shall be upon the false prophets, &c.;' The sense is, that they should feel the weight of his hand, and the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his wrath, by... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 13:1-9
The false prophets, who are here prophesied against, were some of them at Jerusalem (Jer. 23:14): I have seen in the prophets at Jerusalem a horrible thing; some of them among the captives in Babylon, for to them Jeremiah writes (Jer. 29:8), Let not your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you. And as God's prophets, though at a distance from each other in place or time, yet preached the same truths, which was an evidence that they were guided by one and the same good Spirit, so the... read more