Ezekiel:14

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* And there came to me men of the people of Israel , of the elders , and sat before me . * And the word of the Lord came to me , saying , * Son of man , these men have conceived their devices in their hearts , and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities : shall I indeed answer them ? * Therefore speak to them , and thou shalt say to them , Thus saith the Lord ; Any man of the house of Israel , who shall conceive his devices in his heart , and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face , and shall come to the prophet ; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled , * that he should turn aside the house of Israel , according to their hearts that are estranged from me (note :)Or , through their devices (:note ) in their thoughts . * Therefore say to the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord God , Be converted , and turn from your evil practices , and from all your sins , and turn your faces back again . * For any man of the house of Israel , or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel , who shall (note :)Gr . have been alienated (:note ) separate himself from me , and conceive his imaginations in his heart , and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity , and come to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me ; I the Lord will answer him , according to the things wherein he is entangled . * And I will set my face against that man , and will make him desolate and ruined , and will cut him off from the midst of my people ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord . * And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak , I the Lord have caused that prophet to err , and will stretch out my hand upon him , and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel . * And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks ; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass : * that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me , and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions : so shall they be my people , and I will be their God , saith the Lord . * And the word of the Lord came to me , saying , * Son of man , if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass , then will I stretch out my hand upon it , and will break its staff of bread , and will send forth famine upon it , and cut off from it man and beast . * And though these three men should be in the midst of it , Noe , and Daniel , and Job , they alone should be delivered by their righteousness , saith the Lord . * If again I bring evil beasts upon the land , and take vengeance upon it , and it be ruined , and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts : * and if these three men should be in the midst of it , as I live , saith the Lord , neither sons nor daughters shall be saved , but these only shall be saved , and the land shall be destroyed . * Or again if I bring a sword upon that land , and say , Let the sword go through the land ; and I cut off from them man and beast : * though these three men were in the midst of it , as I live , saith the Lord , they shall not deliver sons or daughters , but they only shall be saved themselves . * Or if again I send pestilence upon that land , and pour out my wrath upon it in blood , to destroy from off it man and beast : * and should Noe , and Daniel , and Job , be in the midst of it , as I live , saith the Lord , there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters ; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls . * Thus saith the Lord , And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore (note :)Lit . vengeances (:note ) judgements , sword , and famine , and evil beasts , and pestilence , to destroy from out of it man and beast ; * yet , behold , there shall be men left in it , the escaped thereof , who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters : behold , they shall go forth to you , land ye shall see their ways and their thoughts : and ye shall (note :)Gr . repent over (:note ) mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem , even all the evils which I have brought upon it . * And they shall comfort you , because ye shall see their ways and their thoughts : and ye shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it , saith the Lord .

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