Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
- KJV Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
- NKJV Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”
- NASB Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’ ”
- NLT And when the wall falls, the people will cry out, ‘What happened to your whitewash?’
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Quick answer
When the wall collapses, people will ask, 'Where is the whitewash you applied?'
Overview
The fall of the wall will publicly expose the worthlessness of the prophets' reassurances. Their cosmetic work will be shown to have hidden, not healed, the danger. Judgment unmasks every false comfort for what it really was.
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Cross-references · 8
- 2 Kgs 3:13Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
- Jer 29:31–32“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
- Deut 32:37He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
- Lam 2:14–15The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
- Judg 9:38“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
- Jer 37:19Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
- Judg 10:14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
- Jer 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
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