Yechezkel, 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 Yisra'el who prophesy, and say you to
those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you 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} Yisra'el, 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
Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, neither shall they enter into
Eretz-Yisra'el; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. {13:10}
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Shalom; and
there is no shalom; 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 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 daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that
the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you
shall be consumed in the midst of it: 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 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 Yisra'el who prophesy concerning Yerushalayim, and who see
visions of shalom for her, and there is no shalom, 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 you 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 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 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 Zakenim of Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el in their own heart, because they
are all estranged from me through their idols. {14:6} Therefore tell
the house of Yisra'el, Thus says the Lord GOD: 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 Yisra'el, or of the
strangers who sojourn in Yisra'el, 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
be 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 Yisra'el. {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 Yisra'el 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
the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and
animal; {14:14} though these three men, Noach, Daniyel, and Iyov, 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 Noach, Daniyel, and Iyov, 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 sore judgments on Yerushalayim, 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
Yerushalayim, 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 the ends of it, and the midst of it 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
Yerushalayim. {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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