Ezekiel:14

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* And some of the elders 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 set up their idols in their hearts , and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face . Should I at all be inquired of by them ? * Therefore speak to them , and say to them , So says the Lord Jehovah : Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart , and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face , and comes to the prophet ; I the LORD will answer him in it by the host of his idols ; * so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart , because they are estranged from Me by their idols , all of them . * Therefore say to the house of Israel , So says the Lord Jehovah : Repent and turn from your idols , and turn away your faces from all your abominations . * For every one of the house of Israel , or of the stranger who lives in Israel , who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart , and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face , and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me ; I the LORD will answer him Myself . * And I will set My face against that man , and I will make him desolate for a sign and for proverbs . And I will cut him off from the midst of My people ; and you shall know that I [am ] the LORD . * And the prophet , if he is deceived , and he speaks a word , I the LORD have deceived that prophet . And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him in the midst of My people Israel . * And they shall bear their iniquity . As the iniquity of the inquirer , so the iniquity of the prophet shall be . * So that the house of Israel may never again go astray from Me , nor be defiled again with all their transgressions , but they are to Me My people , and I will be to them for God , says the Lord Jehovah . * The Word of the LORD came again to me , saying , * Son of man , when a land sins against Me by traitorous betraying , then I will stretch out My hand on it , and will break the staff of its bread , and will send famine on it , and will cut off man and beast from it . * And [though ] these three men , Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , they should deliver [only ] their own souls by their righteousness , says the Lord Jehovah . * If I cause destroying beasts to come through the land , and they spoil it so that it is deserted , so that no one may pass through because of the beasts , * [though ] these three men were in its midst , [as ] I live , says the Lord Jehovah , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters . They only shall be delivered , but the land shall be deserted . * Or [if ] I bring a sword on that land , and say , Sword , go through the land ; so that I cut off man and beast from it ; * though these three men [were ] in it , [as ] I live , says the Lord Jehovah , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters , but they [only ] shall be delivered themselves . * Or [if ] I send a plague into that land , and pour out My fury on it in blood , to cut off man and beast from it ; * though Noah , Daniel , and Job [were ] in it , [as ] I live , says the Lord Jehovah , they shall deliver neither son nor daughter . They shall [only ] deliver their own souls by their righteousness . * For so says the Lord Jehovah : How much more when I send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem , the sword , and the famine , and the destroying beast , and the plague , to cut off man and beast from it . * Yet , behold , there shall be left a remnant in it that shall be brought out , sons and daughters . Behold , they shall come out to you , and you shall see their way and their doings . And you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I brought on Jerusalem , [for ] all that I have brought on it . * And they shall comfort you when you see their way and their doings . And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it , says the Lord Jehovah .

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