Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Because, even because. The repetition heightens the emphasis.
They have seduced my people, saying, Peace - safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11.
One - literally, this one; said contemptuously, as in 2 Chronicles 28:22.
Built up a wall - rather, a loose wall, (see margin) Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not 'go up into Built up a wall - rather, a loose wall, (see margin) Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not 'go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches' (Ezekiel 13:5), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.
One ... and, lo, others. Besides individual effort, they jointly cooperated to delude the people.
Daubed it with untempered mortar - as sand without lime, mud without straw (Grotius). Fairbairn translates, 'plaster it with white-wash.' But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing," to make the wall look fair (Matthew 23:27; Matthew 23:29; Acts 23:3, "thou whited wall"), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the 'untempered cement' answering to the lie of the prophets who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken" (Ezekiel 22:28).