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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 14
And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat
before me.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses
in their hearts, and have set up before their face the
stumblingblock of their iniquity : and shall I answer
when they inquire of me?
Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith
the Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall
place his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I
the Lord will answer him according to the multitude
of his uncleannesses:
That the house of Israel may be caught in their own
heart, with which they have departed from me through
all their idols.
Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the
Lord God: Be converted, and depart from your idols,
and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger
among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself
from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord
will answer him by myself.
And I will set my face against that man, and will make
him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off
from the midst of my people: and you shall know that
I am the Lord.
And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I
the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch
forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the
midst of my people Israel.
And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the
iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity
of the prophet be.
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from
me, nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but
may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the
Lord of hosts.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as
to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand
upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof:
and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man
and beast out of it.
And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall
be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their
justice, saith the Lord of hosts.
And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the
land to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there
is none that can pass because of the beasts:
If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith
the Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters:
but they only shall be delivered, and the land shall
be made desolate.
Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the
sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and
beast out of it:
And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live,
saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons
nor daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered.
Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and
pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off
from it man and beast:
And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof:
as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their
own souls by their justice.
For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon
Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and
the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence,
to destroy out of it man and beast,
Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved,
who shall bring away their sons and daughters: behold
they shall come among you, and you shall see their way,
and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning
the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all
things that I have brought upon it.
And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their
ways, and their doings : and you shall know that I have
not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith
the Lord God.
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