Ezekiel:14

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drb @Ezekiel:14:1 @And some of the ancients of Israel came to me , and sat before me . drb @Ezekiel:14:2 @And the word of the Lord came to me , saying : drb @Ezekiel:14:3 @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 ? drb @Ezekiel:14:4 @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 : drb @Ezekiel:14:5 @That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart , with which they have departed from me through all their idols . drb @Ezekiel:14:6 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:7 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:8 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:9 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:10 @And they shall bear their iniquity : according to the iniquity of him that inquireth , so shall the iniquity of the prophet be . drb @Ezekiel:14:11 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:12 @And the word of the Lord came to me , saying : drb @Ezekiel:14:13 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:14 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:15 @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 : drb @Ezekiel:14:16 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:17 @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 : drb @Ezekiel:14:18 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:19 @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 : drb @Ezekiel:14:20 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:21 @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 , drb @Ezekiel:14:22 @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 . drb @Ezekiel:14:23 @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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