CHAP. XIV.
God suffers the wicked to be
deceived in punishment of
their wickedness. The evils
that shall come upon them
for their sins: from which
they shall not be delivered
by the prayers of Noe, Daniel
and Job. But a remnant
shall be preserved.
1 And some of the ancients
of Israel came
to me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of the
Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, these men
have placed their note uncleannesses
in their hearts,
and have set up before their
face the stumbling-block of
their iniquity: and shall I
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answer when they enquire
of me?
4 Therefore speak to
them, and say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God:
Every man of the house of
Israel that shall place his
uncleannesses in his heart,
and set up the stumbling-block
of his iniquity before
his face, and shall come to
the prophet inquiring of me
by him: I the Lord will
answer him according to
the multitude of his uncleannesses:
5 That the house of Israel
may be caught in their
own heart, with which they
have departed from me
through all their idols.
6 Therefore say to the
house of Israel: Thus saith
the Lord God: Be converted,
and depart from
your idols, and turn away
your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every man of the
house of Israel, and every
stranger among the proselites
in Israel, if he separate
himself from me, and place
his idols in his heart, and
set the stumbling-block of
his iniquity before his face,
and come to the prophet to
inquire of me by him: I
the Lord will answer him
by myself.
8 And I will set my face
against that man, and will
make him an example, and
a proverb, and will cut him
off from the midst of my
people: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.
9 And when note the prophet
shall err, and speak a
word: I the Lord note have
deceived that prophet: and
I will stretch forth my hand
upon him, and will cut him
off from the midst of my
people Israel.
10 And they shall bear
their iniquity: according to
the iniquity of him that inquireth,
so shall the iniquity
of the prophet be.
11 That the house of Israel
may go no more astray
from me, nor be polluted
with all their transgressions:
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but may be my people, and
I may be their God, saith
the Lord of hosts.
12 And the word of the
Lord came to me, saying:
13 Son of man, when
a land shall sin against me,
so as to transgress grievously,
I will stretch forth my hand
upon it, and will break the
staff of the bread thereof:
and I will send famine upon
it, and will destroy man and
beast out of it.
14 And if these three
men, Noe, Daniel, and Job,
shall be in it, they shall deliver
only their own souls by
their justice, saith the Lord
of hosts.
15 And if I shall bring
mischievous beasts also upon
the land, to waste it; and it
be desolate, so that there is
none that can pass because
of the beasts:
16 If these three men
shall be in it, as I live, saith
the Lord, they shall deliver
neither sons nor daughters:
but they only shall be delivered,
and the land shall
be made desolate.
17 Or if I bring the sword
upon that land, and say to
the sword: Pass through the
land: and I destroy man
and beast out of it.
18 And these three men
be in the midst therof: as I
live, saith the Lord God,
they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters, but they
themselves alone shall be
delivered.
19 Or if I also send the
pestilence upon that land,
and pour out my indignation
upon it in blood, to cut
off from it man and beast:
20 And Noe, and Daniel,
and Job be in the midst thereof:
as I live, saith the Lord
God, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter: but
they shall only deliver their
own souls by their justice.
21 For thus saith the
Lord: Although I shall send
in upon Jerusalem my four
grievous jugdments, the
sword, and the famine, and
the mischievous beasts, and
the pestilence, to destroy out
of it man, and beast:
22 Yet there shall be left
in it some that shall be
saved, who shall bring away
their sons and daughters:
behold, they shall come among
you, and you shall
see their way, and their doings:
and you shall be comforted
concerning the evil,
that I have brought upon
Jerusalem, in all things that
I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort
you, when you shall see
their ways, and their doings:
and you shall know that I
have not done without cause
all that I have done in it,
saith the Lord God.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
