Ezekiel Chapter 13 verse 4 Holy Bible
O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
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O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.
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O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in desert places.
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O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
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Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
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As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4 - Like the foxes in the deserts, etc. The points of comparison are manifold. The fox is cunning (Luke 13:32, where the term is applied to Herod Antipas). It spoils the vine and its fruits (Song of Solomon 2:15); it burrows among ruins (Nehemiah 4:3; Lamentations 5:18). So the false prophets were crafty, laid waste the vineyard of the Lord of hosts (Isaiah 5:7), made their profit out of the ruin of Israel, and made that ruin worse. The 'Reineke Fuchs,' in satirizing the monks and priests of the sixteenth century under the same comparison, presents a curious, though probably unconscious, analogue. In Matthew 7:15 and Acts 20:29 wolves appear as the types of the false prophet.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Like the foxes in the deserts.--The comparison is sufficiently close if it is considered as extending only to these mischievous men living unconcerned among the ruins of their state and country, as the foxes find their home in desolated cities (Lamentations 5:18); but many extend the simile to the undermining of the ground by the foxes, as these prophets accelerated the ruin of their people.