False Prophets Like Foxes
A. B. Davidson, D. D. Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. The prophets are like foxes: ruins are congenial to them; a condition of decay is their proper sphere; there they can burrow as their instincts prompt them. The main idea, however, is that their operations only increase the devastation, and Undermine and bring down anything that may yet be standing. In a declining and disastrous time the minds of men are excited and feed on the wildest schemes; and, feeling themselves helpless, they readily turn to those who pretend to speak to them in God's name. And it only adds to their ruin when those to whom they turn have no higher wisdom than themselves. (A. B. Davidson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. WEB: Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.