Ezekiel 13:5
New International Version
You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the LORD.

New Living Translation
They have done nothing to repair the breaks in the walls around the nation. They have not helped it to stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.

English Standard Version
You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

King James Bible
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

New King James Version
You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build up a stone wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

NASB 1995
“You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

NASB 1977
“You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
You have not gone up into the gaps or breaches, nor built the wall around the house of Israel that it might stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

American Standard Version
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You did not go up into the wall gaps, also you did not build a fence for those of the house of Israel in which to stand in war in the day of LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,

Contemporary English Version
They don't warn the people about coming trouble or tell them how dangerous it is to sin against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the Lord.

English Revised Version
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They haven't repaired the gaps in the wall or rebuilt the wall for the nation of Israel. So Israel will not be protected in battle on the day of the LORD.

Good News Translation
They don't guard the places where the walls have crumbled, nor do they rebuild the walls, and so Israel cannot be defended when war comes on the day of the LORD.

International Standard Version
You didn't go up to repair the breaches in the walls and you didn't build the walls so Israel's house would be able to endure battle on the Day of the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye have not gone up into the breaches, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
You have not gone up into breaches, | Nor do you make a wall for the house of Israel, | To stand in battle in a day of YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

New American Bible
You did not step into the breach, nor repair the wall around the house of Israel so it would stand firm against attack on the day of the LORD.

NET Bible
You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
You have not gone up into the breaches, or repaired a wall for the house of Israel, so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
You have not gone up into the breach, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD."

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

World English Bible
You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Reproof of False Prophets
4Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. 5You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD. 6They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.…

Cross References
Psalm 106:23
So He said He would destroy them--had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming--cruel, with fury and burning anger--to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

Isaiah 58:12
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds."

Ezekiel 7:19
They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

Ezekiel 13:4
Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.


Treasury of Scripture

You have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

have not

Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Exodus 17:9-13
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand…

Exodus 32:11,12
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? …

gaps.

Isaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Lamentations 2:13,14
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? …

Job 40:9
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Psalm 76:7
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Isaiah 27:4
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

the day

Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Isaiah 13:6,9
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty…

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1. The reproof of false prophets
10. and their untempered mortar
17. Of prophecies and their pillows














(5) Ye have not gone up into the gaps.--The change of person is frequent enough in prophecy, and especially common in Ezekiel. It is changed back in Ezekiel 13:6, and changed again in Ezekiel 13:7. The gaps refer to the breaches in the wall made by the enemy, which became the rallying point of every brave leader (see Ezekiel 22:30), and the following words express essentially the same thought. The word "hedge" should rather be translated wall--"neither have ye built up the wall." The false prophets, like the hireling shepherds of John 10:12, were only selfish, and had no care for the flock. The whole language is figurative, the breaches in the material walls representing the moral decay of the people.

Verse 5. - The verse contains two distinct images. There were breaches in the walls of Jerusalem, literally and spiritually, and the false prophets had not been as "repairers of the breach" (Isaiah 58:12; Psalm 106:23). The hedge of the vineyard of Israel had been broken through (Isaiah 5:5), and they had done nothing to restore it (Ezekiel 22:30). The day of battle, the day of the Lord, had come, and they were betraying the people instead of helping.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You did not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

go up
עֲלִיתֶם֙ (‘ă·lî·ṯem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

to the gaps
בַּפְּרָצ֔וֹת (bap·pə·rā·ṣō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6556: A bursting forth, breach

or restore
וַתִּגְדְּר֥וּ (wat·tiḡ·də·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1443: To wall up or off, to build a wall

the wall
גָדֵ֖ר (ḡā·ḏêr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1447: A circumvallation, an inclosure

around
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the house
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

so that it would stand
לַעֲמֹ֥ד (la·‘ă·mōḏ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

in the battle
בַּמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (bam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

on the Day
בְּי֥וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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