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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {13:2} Son of man,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those
who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of the LORD: {13:3}
Thus says the Lord GOD, 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 the LORD. {13:6} They have seen falsehood
and lying divination, who say, the LORD says; but the LORD 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, the LORD says; but I have
not spoken? {13:8} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have
spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
says the Lord GOD. {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 Eretz-Israel; and
you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. {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 plaster it with whitewash:
{13:11} tell those who plaster 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
has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with
which you have plastered it? {13:13} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
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
plastered 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 the LORD. {13:15}
Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have
plastered it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more,
neither those who plastered 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 GOD. {13:17} You, son of
man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy
out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, {13:18} and say,
Thus says the Lord GOD: 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 GOD: 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 whom 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 the LORD. {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 the
LORD.
{14:1} Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat
before me. {14:2} The word of the LORD 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 GOD: 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 the LORD 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 GOD: Return, 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 live 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 the LORD 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 the LORD. {14:9} If the prophet is deceived
and speak a word, I, the LORD, 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 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 GOD.
{14:12} The word of the LORD 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 GOD. {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 GOD, 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 GOD, 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 GOD, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should
but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. {14:21} For thus
says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send my four severe 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 GOD.
{15:1} The word of the LORD 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
GOD: 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 the LORD, when I set my face against them. {15:8} I will make the
land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord
GOD.
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