Catholic Public Domain Version
"So then, behold: when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you: ‘Where is the mortar with which you covered it?’ "
— Ezekiel 13:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?”
“Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? ”
“Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
“When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?””
“Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to you: Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?”
“And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?”
“Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?”
And my hand will be over the prophets who are seeing emptiness and divining lies. They shall not be in the council of my people, and they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel. Neither shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.
For they have deceived my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ and there is no peace. And they have built a wall, but they have covered it in clay without straw.
Say to those who spread mortar without mixing, that it will fall apart. For there will be an inundating rain, and I will cause full-grown hailstones to rush down from above, and a windstorm to dissipate it.
So then, behold: when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you: ‘Where is the mortar with which you covered it?’
Because of this, thus says the Lord God: And I will cause a violent wind to burst forth in my indignation, and there will be an inundating rain in my fury, and great hailstones in wrath, to consume.
And I will destroy the wall that you have covered without tempering it. And I will level it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed. And it will fall and be consumed in its midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord.
And I will fulfill my indignation against the wall, and against those who cover it without mixing the mortar, and I will say to you: The wall is no more, and those who covered it are no more: