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| [1]And come in unto me do certain of the elders of Israel, and sit before me. |
[1]Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. |
| [2]And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, |
[2]And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, |
| [3]`Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them? |
[3]Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I, being required, answer them? |
| [4]`Therefore, speak with them, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every one of the house of Israel who causeth his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath gone in unto the prophet -- I Jehovah have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols, |
[4]Therefore 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 the stumbling block 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: |
| [5]in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them. |
[5]That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all departed from me through their idols. |
| [6]`Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye back, yea, turn ye back from your idols, and from all your abominations turn back your faces, |
[6]Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Return, and withdraw yourselves, and turn your faces from your idols, and turn your faces from all your abominations. |
| [7]for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separated from after Me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, have answered him for Myself; |
[7]For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet, for to inquire of him for me, I the Lord will answer him for myself, |
| [8]and I have set My face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of My people, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah. |
[8]And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example and proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. |
| [9]`And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word -- I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel. |
[9]And if the prophet be deceived, when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out mine hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people of Israel. |
| [10]And they have borne their iniquity: as the iniquity of the inquirer, so is the iniquity of the prophet; |
[10]And they shall bear their punishment: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that asketh, |
| [11]so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' |
[11]That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God. |
| [12]And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, |
[12]The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, |
| [13]`Son of man, the land -- when it sinneth against Me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out My hand against it, and broken for it the staff of bread, and sent into it famine, and cut off from it man and beast -- |
[13]Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it. |
| [14]and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job -- they by their righteousness deliver their own soul -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. |
[14]Though these three men Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. |
| [15]`If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast -- |
[15]If I bring noisome beasts into the land and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through, because of beasts, |
| [16]these three men in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation. |
[16]Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall save neither sons nor daughters: they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be waste. |
| [17]`Or -- a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast -- |
[17]Or if I bring a sword upon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it, |
| [18]and these three men in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered. |
[18]Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. |
| [19]`Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast -- |
[19]Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast, |
| [20]and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul. |
[20]And though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the midst of it, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. |
| [21]`For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Although My four sore judgments -- sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence -- I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast, |
[21]For thus saith the Lord God, How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, even the sword, and famine, and the noisome beast and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it? |
| [22]yet, lo, there hath been left in it an escape, who are brought forth, sons and daughters, lo, they are coming forth unto you, and ye have seen their way, and their doings, and have been comforted concerning the evil that I have brought in against Jerusalem, all that which I have brought in against it. |
[22]Yet behold, therein shall be left a remnant of them that shall be carried away both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and their enterprises: and ye shall be comforted, concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. |
| [23]And they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for nought have I done all that which I have done in her -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' |
[23]And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their enterprises: and ye shall know, that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God. |