Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 13:19

19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Profanely contradicting what is indeed spoken in my name, and pretending my name for that I never spake, nor will do.

Who are my peculiar, who have my Word and true Prophets, by which your lies are discovered, and farther will be, what shameless impudence is this to abuse my name, counterfeit my hand and seal to them that do or might know both!

For a mean reward, tell fortunes for a penny! but there may be herein a Provision made against the Famine which was threatned and would come, this grain might be kept.

Bread and morsels of Bread, mercenary Sorceresses! That thus make sale of their predictions for to feed their hungry bellies.

You denounce evil to the be[illegible: 1 letter], perhaps threatned those in Babylon with death, whom God will keep alive there.

Declaring safety, plenty, prosperity, peace without War or victory in the War, included in that they live.

Most falsely flattering those that come to you, and most maliciously threatning those that come not, because they know you speak your own lies. You save whom i'le kill, and kill whom i'le save.

Marginal references: See Mic. 3.5.