Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

And he said to me: "Son of man, these are men who devise iniquity. And they offer a wicked counsel in this city,

Et dixit ad me, Fili hominis, isti homines cogitant vanitatem, et consultant consilium perversum in urbe hae.

Then said he unto me, son of man,.... That is, the Lord, or, the Spirit of the Lord, that lifted him up:
these are the men that devise mischief; or "vanity" (d); this is to be understood not of the two only that are named, though it may of them chiefly; but of all the twenty five, who formed schemes for the holding out of the siege, and for the security of the city, and of themselves in it, which was all folly and vanity:
and give wicked counsel in this city; either in ecclesiastical affairs, to forsake the worship of God, and cleave to the idols of the nations; or in civil things, as follows:
(d) "vanitatem", Calvin, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius; "vanum", Cocceius, Starckius.

he--the Lord sitting on the cherubim (Ezekiel 10:2).
wicked counsel--in opposition to the prophets of God (Ezekiel 11:3).

He - The Lord sitting on the cherub.