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Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024

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Ezekiel Chapter 14

1Then some men from the elders of Israel came to me and sat in front of me. 2And the word of the Lord came to me and said, 3“Son of Adam, those men have set up their idols in their hearts, and they have put the stumbling block of their iniquity right in front of themselves. Should I be open to consultation at all by them? 4So speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «When any man of the house of Israel sets up his idols in his heart, and he places the stumbling block of his iniquity right in front of himself, and he comes to the prophet, I, the Lord, will be induced to answer him about it in response to the multitude of his idols, 5so that I catch the house of Israel by their own heart with which they have all alienated themselves from me with their idols.» ’ 6Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «Turn away and restore yourselves from your idols, and turn your attention away from all your abominations. 7For every man of the house of Israel and foreigner who resides in Israel has alienated himself from me and has set up his idols in his heart, and he has placed the stumbling block of his iniquity right in front of himself, and when he comes to the prophet to inquire from him of me, I, the Lord, will be induced to answer him by myself. 8And I will take issue with that man, and I will make him a sign and a subject of sayings, and I will cut him off from my people, and you will know that I am the Lord. 9And if a prophet is deceived when he utters words, I, the Lord, will deceive that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will obliterate him from my people Israel. 10And they will bear the penalty for their iniquity. As the penalty for the iniquity is for the one who consults, so the penalty for the iniquity will be for the prophet, 11in order that they should no longer lead the house of Israel astray, away from following me, and that they should no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions, but that they should be my people, and I should be their God, says the Lord, the Lord.» ’ ” 12Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, 13“Son of Adam, if a land sins against me by acting perversely, then I will stretch my hand against it and break its supply of bread, and I will send a famine to it, and I will cut man and beast off from it. 14And even if these three men were somewhere in it: Noah, Daniel and Job, they by their righteousness would only save their own lives, says the Lord, the Lord. 15If I were to cause wild animals to pass through the land and bereave it, and it were to become desolate for want of a passer-by, because of the wild animals, 16those three men somewhere in it – as I live, says the Lord, the Lord – would certainly not save sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, and the land would become a desolation. 17Or if I were to bring the sword on that land and to say, ‘Let the sword pass through the land’, so that I should cut man and beast off from it, 18then these three men somewhere in it – as I live, says the Lord, the Lord – would not save sons or daughters, but they would only save themselves. 19Or if I were to send a pestilence to that land, and I were to pour my fury out over it in bloodshed, so as to cut man and beast off from it, 20and Noah, Daniel and Job were somewhere inside it – as I live, says the Lord, the Lord – they certainly would not save son or daughter. They would only save their own lives by their righteousness. 21For this is what the Lord, the Lord, says: ‘Even if I send my four harmful judgments – the sword and famine and wild animals and a pestilence to Jerusalem, so as to cut man and beast off from it, 22yet it will be the case that a remnant will remain in it, who will be brought out – sons and daughters. There they will be coming out to you, and you will see their way and their deeds, and you will be comforted concerning the harm which I brought over Jerusalem, with everything I brought over it. 23And they will comfort you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that it was not for nothing that I did everything that I did in it, says the Lord, the Lord.’ ”
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