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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 33
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and
say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if
the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest,
and make him a watchman over them:
And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound
the trumpet, and tell the people:
Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever
he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come,
and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.
He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to
himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look
to himself, he shall save his life.
And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound
not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves,
and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them:
he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will
require his blood at the hand of the watchman.
So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to
the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word
from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.
When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely
die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from
his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,
but I will require his blood at thy hand.
But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted
from his ways, and he be not converted from his way:
he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel:
Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our
sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then
can we live?
Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire
not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn
from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil
ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of
thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver
him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness
of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever
he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall
not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever
he shall sin.
Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely
live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity:
all his justices shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity,
which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.
And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely
die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment
and justice,
And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render
what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of
life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live,
and shall not die.
None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be
imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he
shall surely live.
And the children of thy people have said: The way of
the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is
unjust.
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and
commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness,
and shall do judgments, and justice: be shall live in
them.
And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will
judge every one of you according to his ways, O house
of Israel.
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity,
in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that
there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying:
The city is laid waste.
And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening,
before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth
till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being
opened, I was silent no more.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places
in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one,
and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land
is given us in possession.
Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God, You
that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your
uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess
the land by inheritance?
You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations,
and every one hath defiled his neighbour's wife; and
shall you possess the land by inheritance?
Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I
live, they that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall
by the sword: and he that is in the field, shall be
given to the beasts to be devoured: and they that are
in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence.
And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert,
and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains
of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to
pass by them.
And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall
have made their land waste and desolate, for all their
abominations which they have committed.
And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that
talk of thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses,
and speak one to another each men to his neighbour,
saying: Come, and let us hear what is the word that
cometh forth from the Lord.
And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in,
and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and
do them not: for they turn them into a song of their
mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung
with a sweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy
words, and do them not.
And when that which was foretold shall come to pass,
(for behold it is coming,) then shall they know that
a prophet bath been among them. |
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