[5:1] You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. [5:2] A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. [5:3] You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. [5:4] Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. [5:5] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her. [5:6] She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. [5:7] Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you; [5:8] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. [5:9] I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. [5:10] Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds. [5:11] Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. [5:12] A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. [5:13] Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. [5:14] Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. [5:15] So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) [5:16] when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread; [5:17] and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
[6:1] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [6:2] Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, [6:3] and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. [6:4] Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. [6:5] I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars. [6:6] In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. [6:7] The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [6:8] Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. [6:9] Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. [6:10] They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them. [6:11] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. [6:12] He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them. [6:13] You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols. [6:14] I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[7:1] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [7:2] You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land. [7:3] Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. [7:4] My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [7:5] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. [7:6] An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. [7:7] Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. [7:8] Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. [7:9] My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike. [7:10] Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. [7:11] Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. [7:12] The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude. [7:13] For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. [7:14] They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude. [7:15] The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. [7:16] But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity. [7:17] All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. [7:18] They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. [7:19] They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity. [7:20] As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing. [7:21] I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. [7:22] My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it. [7:23] Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. [7:24] Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned. [7:25] Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. [7:26] Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. [7:27] The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[8:1] It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me. [8:2] Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. [8:3] He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. [8:4] Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. [8:5] Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. [8:6] He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations. [8:7] He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. [8:8] Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. [8:9] He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. [8:10] So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall. [8:11] There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. [8:12] Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. [8:13] He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do. [8:14] Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. [8:15] Then said he to me, Have you seen this, son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these. [8:16] He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east. [8:17] Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose. [8:18] Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
[9:1] Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. [9:2] Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. [9:3] The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. [9:4] Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst. [9:5] To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity; [9:6] kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house. [9:7] He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city. [9:8] It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem? [9:9] Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see. [9:10] As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head. [9:11] Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
[10:1] Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a [sapphire] stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. [10:2] He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. [10:3] Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. [10:4] The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory. [10:5] The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. [10:6] It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. [10:7] The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. [10:8] There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. [10:9] I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. [10:10] As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel. [10:11] When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. [10:12] Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that they four had. [10:13] As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. [10:14] Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. [10:15] The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. [10:16] When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them. [10:17] When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. [10:18] The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. [10:19] The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. [10:20] This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. [10:21] Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. [10:22] As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
[11:1] Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. [11:2] He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; [11:3] who say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh. [11:4] Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man. [11:5] The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. [11:6] You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. [11:7] Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst. [11:8] You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh. [11:9] I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. [11:10] You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [11:11] This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in its midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel; [11:12] and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you. [11:13] It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel? [11:14] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [11:15] Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession. [11:16] Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come. [11:17] Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. [11:18] They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there. [11:19] I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; [11:20] that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. [11:21] But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh. [11:22] Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. [11:23] The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. [11:24] The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. [11:25] Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
[12:1] The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying, [12:2] Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house. [12:3] Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. [12:4] You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. [12:5] Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. [12:6] In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. [12:7] I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight. [12:8] In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, [12:9] Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you? [12:10] Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. [12:11] Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity. [12:12] The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. [12:13] My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. [12:14] I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. [12:15] They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. [12:16] But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. [12:17] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [12:18] Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness; [12:19] and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. [12:20] The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [12:21] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [12:22] Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? [12:23] Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. [12:24] For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. [12:25] For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh. [12:26] Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [12:27] Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off. [12:28] Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
[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.