ULT EZE Chapter 14

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14 And men from the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat to my face. 2 Then the word of Yahweh was to me, saying, 3 “Son of man, these men have brought up their idols on their heart, and the obstacle of their iniquity they have put opposite their faces. Being sought, will I be sought by them? 4 Therefore, speak to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A man, a man from the house of Israel who brings up his idols to his heart and places the obstacle of his iniquity opposite his face, and then comes to the prophet—I, Yahweh, I will answer him with it, in the multitude of his idols, 5 in order to seize the house of Israel by their heart, who have become estranged from me by their idols—all of them.’

6 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return! And turn away from your idols, and, from all your abominations, turn your faces! 7 For a man, a man from the house of Israel, or from the sojourner who sojourns in Israel, and he consecrates himself from after me, and he brings up his idols to his heart, and he places the obstacle of his iniquity opposite his face, and then he comes to the prophet to inquire through him of me—I, Yahweh, I will answer through him of me. 8 Then I will set my face against that man, and I will make him into a sign and into proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

9 And the prophet, if he is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they will carry their iniquity—the iniquity of the one inquiring will be like the iniquity of the prophet, 11 so that the house of Israel will no longer wander away from after me, and they will no longer make themselves unclean with all their rebellions. And they will belong to me as a people, and I, I will belong to them as God—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

12 Then the word of Yahweh was to me, saying, 13 Son of man, a land, if it sinned against me by violating a violation, and I stretched out my hand against it, and I broke for it a staff of bread, and I sent famine against it, and I cut off from it man and animal, 14 and three of these men were in its midst—Noah, Daniel, and Job—themselves, by their righteousness, they would rescue their lives—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.

15 If I made an evil creature pass through the land, and it bereaves, and it becomes a desolation, without passing through from the face of the creature, 16 and three of these men, were in its midst—the life of me, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—neither sons nor daughters would they rescue; they by themselves—they would be rescued, but the land would become a desolation.

17 Or if I brought a sword against that land, and I said, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I cut off from it man and animal, 18 and three of these men, were in its midst—the life of me, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—they would not rescue sons or daughters, for they by themselves, they would be rescued.

19 Or, if I sent a plague to that land, and I poured out my heat against it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal, 20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in its midst—the life of me, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—neither son nor daughter would they rescue; they, by their righteousness, they would rescue their lives.

21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four disastrous judgments—a sword and a famine and a disastrous creature and a plague—to Jerusalem, to cut off from her man and animal! 22 But look! Survivors will be left in her, those being brought out, sons and daughters. Look at them!—going out to you, and you will see their way and their deeds, and you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I brought on Jerusalem, everything that I brought on her. 23 And they will comfort you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that not without cause have I done all that I have done in her—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.

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