KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 14
Jehovah answers idolaters. His irrevocable sentence of famine, and of pestilence.
1And the men of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
2And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
3Son of man, these men have made go up their idols in their hearts, and have set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I at all be sought by them?
4Therefore, speak to them and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man, the man of the house of Israel who causes idols to go up in his heart, and who sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and goes in to the prophet, I, Jehovah, will answer him in it by the host of his idols,
5so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart, who are estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.
6Therefore, say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: turn back, and be turned from your idols, and from all your abominations turn back your faces.
7For every man, the man of the house of Israel, or of the alien who sojourns in Israel, who is separated from after Me and causes his idols to go up in his heart, and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and goes in to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, will answer him Myself.
8And I will put 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 Jehovah.
9And the prophet, if he is deceived, and he speaks a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
10And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be.
11So that the house of Israel may not stray any more from after Me, and not be defiled again with all their transgressions; but they are to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
12And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
13Son of man, when a land sins against Me, by doing an unfaithful act, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and I will shatter the staff of bread to it, and I will send famine on it. And I will cut off from it man and beast.
14And though these three men were in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, by their righteousness they should deliver only their souls, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
15If I make evil beasts pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it is desolate, so that no one would pass through because of the beasts,
16though these three men were in its midst, as I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; they would only deliver themselves, but the land would be desolate.
17Or if I bring a sword on that land and say, Let a sword go through the land, and I will cut off man and beast from it,
18though these three men were in its midst, as I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, they should not deliver sons or daughters, but they only would deliver themselves.
19Or if I send a plague into the land and pour out My fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
20and though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they by their righteousness would deliver only their souls.
21For so says the Lord Jehovah, How much more when the four of My evil judgments: sword, and famine, and evil beast, and plague I send on Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast!
22Yet, behold, there shall be left in it an escape, a remnant that shall be brought out, sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come to you, and you shall see their way and their doings. And you will be comforted for the evil which I have brought against Jerusalem, for all which I have brought upon it.
23And they will comfort you when you see their way and their doings. And you will know that not in vain I have done all that I did in it, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
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