Ezekiel 13–28

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto ^athem that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord; ³thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, ^band have seen nothing! ⁴O Israel, thy prophets are ^clike the foxes in the deserts. ⁵Ye have not gone up ^dinto the gaps, neither ^dmade up the hedge for the house of Israel ^dto stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. ^6eThey have seen vanity ^eand lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and ^fthe Lord hath not sent them: and they have ^gmade others to hope that they would confirm the word. ⁷Have ye not seen ^ea vain vision, and have ye not spoken ^ea lying divination, ^hwhereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken? ⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore ⁱbehold, I am against you, saith the Lord God. ⁹And mine hand shall be upon ^ethe prophets that see vanity, ^eand that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither ^kshall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, ^lneither shall they enter into the land of Israel; ^lmand ye shall know that I am the Lord God. ¹⁰ⁿBecause, even because they have seduced my people, ^osaying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and lo, others ^pdaubed it with untempered morter: ¹¹say unto them ^pwhich daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be ^qran overflowing shower; and ye, O ^qgreat hailstones, shall fall; and ^sta stormy wind shall rent it. ¹²Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? ¹³Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rent it with ^ta stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be ^qan overflowing shower in mine anger, and ^qgreat hailstones in my fury to consume it. ¹⁴So will I break down the wall that ^pye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: ^mand ye shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁵Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them ^pthat have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; ¹⁶to wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and ^owhich see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.

¹⁷Likewise thou son of man, ^uset thy face against ^vthe daughters of thy people, ^avwhich prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, ¹⁸and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women ^wthat sew pillows to all ^xarmholes, and ^ymake kerchiefs upon the head of every stature ^wto hunt souls! ^zWill ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? ¹⁹And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and ^afor pieces of bread, ^bto slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? ²⁰Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against ^cyour pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. ^21cYour kerchiefs also will I tear, and ^ddeliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; ^eand ye shall know that I am the Lord. ²²Because ^fwith lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and ^gstrengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: ²³therefore ^hye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for ^dI will deliver my people out of your hand: ^eand ye shall know that I am the Lord.

XIV.Then ^acame certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. ²And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ³Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put ^bthe stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: ^cshould I be inquired of at all by them? ⁴Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth ^bthe stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; ^5dthat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all ^eestranged from me through their idols. ⁶Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn ^fyourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. ⁷For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which ^eseparateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth ^bthe stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself: ⁸and ^gI will set my face against that man, and will make him a ^hsign and ⁱa proverb, and ^gI will cut him off from the midst of my people; ^kand ye shall know that I am the Lord. ⁹And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, ^lI the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. ¹⁰And they shall bear ^mthe punishment of their iniquity: ^mthe punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; ¹¹that the house of Israel ⁿmay go no more astray from me, neither ^obe polluted any more with all their transgressions; but ^pthat they may be my people, ^pand I may be their God, saith the Lord God.

¹²The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ¹³Son of man, when the land sinneth against me ^qby trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and ^rwill break the staff of the bread thereof, and ^rrwill send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: ^14sthough these three men, ^tNoah, ^uDaniel, and ^vJob, were in it, ^wthey should deliver but their own souls ^xby their righteousness, saith the Lord God. ¹⁵If I cause ^ynoisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: ^16sthough these three men were in it, ^zas I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but ^zzthe land shall be desolate. ¹⁷Or if ^aI bring ^ya sword upon that land, and say, ^aaSword, go through the land; so that ^bI cut off man and beast from it: ^18cthough these three men were in it, ^zas I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. ¹⁹Or if I send ^da pestilence into that land, and ^epour out my fury upon it in blood, ^bto cut off from it man and beast: ^20cthough Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, ^zas I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; ^wthey shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. ²¹For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when ^xI send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, ^fghithe sword, and ^fhkthe famine, and ^fglthe noisome beast, and ^fghmthe pestilence, ^bto cut off from it man and beast? ²²Yet behold, ⁿtherein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see ^otheir way and their doings: and ^pye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. ²³And ^pthey shall comfort you, when ye see ^otheir ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done ^qwithout cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.

XV.And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than ^aa branch which is among the trees of the forest? ³Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take ^ba pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? ⁴Behold, ^cit is ^dcast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burnt. Is it meet for any work? ⁵Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: ^ehow much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? ⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ^fAs 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. And ^gI will set my face against them; ^hthey shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; ⁱand ye shall know that I am the Lord, ^gwhen I set my face against them. ⁸And ^kI will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.

XVI.Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^acause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy ^dbirth and thy nativity is of the land of ^eCanaan; ^fthy father was ^gan Amorite, and ^fthy mother ^ha Hittite. ⁴And as for thy nativity, ⁱin the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ^5jNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to ^kthe lothing of thy person, ⁱin the day that thou wast born.

⁶And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast ^kkin thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast ^kkin thy blood, Live. ^7lI have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ⁿornaments: ^othy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair…