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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {13:2} Son of man,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you to
those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you the word of
Yahweh: {13:3} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets,
who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! {13:4} Israel,
your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. {13:5} You
have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the
house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh. {13:6}
They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says;
but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the
word would be confirmed. {13:7} Haven't you seen a false vision, and
haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says;
but I have not spoken? {13:8} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I
am against you, says the Lord Yahweh. {13:9} My hand shall be against
the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall
not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in
the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the
land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {13:10}
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they daub it
with whitewash: {13:11} tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it
shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great
hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. {13:12}
Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is
the daubing with which you have daubed it? {13:13} Therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath;
and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great
hailstones in wrath to consume it. {13:14} So will I break down the
wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the
ground, so that its foundation shall be uncovered; and it shall fall,
and you shall be consumed in its midst: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. {13:15} Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on
those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall
is no more, neither those who daubed it; {13:16} [to wit], the
prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see
visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.
{13:17} You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your
people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against
them, {13:18} and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who
sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons
of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people,
and save souls alive for yourselves? {13:19} You have profaned me
among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to
kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who
should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
{13:20} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your
pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I
will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the
souls who you hunt to make [them] fly. {13:21} Your kerchiefs also
will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be
no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. {13:22} Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the
righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the
wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved
alive: {13:23} Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor
practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{14:1} Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat
before me. {14:2} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {14:3} Son of
man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the
stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be
inquired of at all by them? {14:4} Therefore speak to them, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who
takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will
answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; {14:5}
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they
are all estranged from me through their idols. {14:6} Therefore tell
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn
yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your
abominations. {14:7} For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and
takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for
himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself: {14:8} and I will
set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my
people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {14:9} If the prophet be
deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and
I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst
of my people Israel. {14:10} They shall bear their iniquity: the
iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks
[to him]; {14:11} that the house of Israel may go no more astray from
me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord
Yahweh. {14:12} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {14:13} Son of
man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I
stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send
famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal; {14:14} though these
three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but
their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh. {14:15}
If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it,
and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of
the animals; {14:16} though these three men were in it, as I live,
says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters;
they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
{14:17} Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal; {14:18} though
these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they
should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be
delivered themselves. {14:19} Or if I send a pestilence into that
land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and
animal; {14:20} though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,
says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
{14:21} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my
four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
{14:22} Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be
comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even
concerning all that I have brought on it. {14:23} 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 Yahweh.
{15:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {15:2} Son of man,
what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is
among the trees of the forest? {15:3} Shall wood be taken of it to
make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel
thereon? {15:4} Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire
has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable
for any work? {15:5} Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no
work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned,
shall it yet be meet for any work! {15:6} Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have
given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. {15:7} I will set my face against them; they shall go forth
from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them. {15:8} I will make the
land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord
Yahweh.
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