Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed 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?”
- BSB Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 2 Kgs 3:13And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- Jer 29:31–32Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
- Deut 32:37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
- Lam 2:14–15Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
- Judg 9:38Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
- Jer 37:19Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- Judg 10:14Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
- Jer 2:28But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
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