those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.’
He now concludes this discourse, and shows what he had hitherto intended by a building badly cemented, by using sand without lime. The prophets of Israel prophesied concerning Jerusalem. Here he does not mean false prophets, with whom Jeremiah was continually contending, but those who in exile still hardened the wretched.
The false prophets seduce God's people by crying peace when there is no peace, comparing themselves to those who build a flimsy wall on sand. They cheat sinners by lessening their dread of sin and fear of God, telling idolaters there is neither harm nor danger in their way. This lends them a false authority until the storm comes and exposes the rottenness beneath.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 13:10-16
And say, thus saith the Lord God, woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes,.... Or, "put pillows to all elbows" (l); thereby signifying that they might be at ease, and rest secure, and look upon themselves as in the utmost safety, and not fear any enemy, the invasion of the Chaldeans; or that their city would be destroyed, and they carried captive...