Ezekiel 21:29

they see vanity unto thee i.e. Ammon's soothsayers falsely hold out the prospect to it of victory and conquest.

bring thee upon the necks The sense is doubtful, the phrase "bring, or, put, upon the necks" not occurring again. The "wicked, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end," can hardly be any other than the princes and people of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 21:25; Ezekiel 21:1. The clause "to bring thee," &c., might express the contentsof the lying prophecy: they divine a lie and bring thee they promise that thou shalt fall upon Israel, and conquer them. 2. The clause may express the issueof the lying divination, the eventual issue of it in God's hand. These lying prophecies lead the Ammonites to enterprises or to purpose enterprizes the issue of which in God's hand (or, his judgment because of which) will be that they shall have a common fate with the princes and people of Jerusalem, upon whose necks (bodies) they shall be flung slain. 3. Others (Hitz. Corn.) would alter the text reading it(the sword) for thee, and connecting closely with Ezekiel 21:28: that it may glitter (whiles they divine a lie unto thee, &c.), in order to bring it (the sword) upon the necks, &c., i.e. assail and slay them with it. This is simpler, though against LXX.

upon the necks … wicked More plainly: upon the necks of the wicked that are (to be) slain, i.e. the princes, &c. in Jerusalem, Ezekiel 21:25.

whentheir iniquity … end At the time of the iniquity (or, punishment) of the end, cf. Ezekiel 21:25.