1And men among the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat down before me.

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Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 33:31

2And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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Amos 3:7, Amos 3:7, 1 Kings 14:4, 1 Kings 14:4

3“Son of man, these men have placed their uncleanness in their hearts, and they have stationed the scandal of their iniquities before their face. So why should I respond when they inquire of me?

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Ezekiel 14:7, Ezekiel 14:7, Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:19, Isaiah 1:15

4Because of this, speak to them, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: The man, the man of the house of Israel, who places his uncleanness in his heart, and who stations the scandal of his iniquities before his face, and who approaches a prophet, so as to inquire of me through him: I, the Lord, will respond to him in accord with the multitude of his uncleannesses,

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Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 14:7, Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 14:7, Isaiah 3:11

5so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols.

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Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 11:8, Romans 1:30

6Because of this, say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Be converted, and withdraw from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

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Ezekiel 18:30, Ezekiel 18:30, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 30:22, Isaiah 2:20

7For the man, the man of the house of Israel, and the new arrival among the converts who may be in Israel, if he is alienated from me, and he sets his idols in his heart, and he stations the scandal of his iniquity before his face, and he approaches the prophet, so that he may inquire of me through him: I, the Lord, will respond to him through myself.

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Exodus 12:48, Exodus 12:48, Isaiah 58:1, Isaiah 58:2, Isaiah 58:1

8And I will set my face against that man, and I will make him an example and a proverb. And I will perish him from the midst of my people. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 15:7, Ezekiel 15:7, Ezekiel 5:15, Jeremiah 44:11, Ezekiel 5:15

9And when a prophet has gone astray and has spoken a word: I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet. And I will extend my hand over him, and I will wipe him away from the midst of my people, Israel.

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Jeremiah 4:10, Ezekiel 20:25, Jeremiah 4:10, Ezekiel 20:25, Isaiah 66:4

10And they shall bear their iniquity. In accord with the iniquity of the one who inquires, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.

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Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 17:18, Ezekiel 17:20, Genesis 4:13

11So may the house of Israel no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted by all their transgressions. Instead, may they be my people, and may I be their God, says the Lord of hosts.”

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Ezekiel 37:23, Ezekiel 37:23, Ezekiel 48:11, Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 48:11

12And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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13“Son of man, when a land will have sinned against me, so that it transgresses grievously, I will extend my hand over it, and I will crush the staff of its bread. And I will send a famine upon it, and I will destroy from it both man and beast.

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Leviticus 26:26, Ezekiel 4:16, Leviticus 26:26, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 15:8

14And if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver their own souls by their justice, says the Lord of hosts.

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Jeremiah 15:1, Ezekiel 14:20, Jeremiah 15:1, Ezekiel 14:20, Ezekiel 28:3

15And if I also lead in very harmful beasts upon the land, so that I devastate it, and it becomes impassable, so that no one may cross through it because of the beasts,

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Ezekiel 5:17, Leviticus 26:22, Ezekiel 5:17, Leviticus 26:22, Jeremiah 15:3

16if these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they will deliver neither sons, nor daughters. But only they themselves will be delivered, for the land shall be desolated.

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Genesis 19:29, Genesis 19:29, James 5:16, Ezekiel 33:11, Job 22:20

17Or if I lead in the sword upon that land, and if I say to the sword, ‘Pass through the land,’ and so I destroy from it both man and beast,

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Leviticus 26:25, Ezekiel 21:3, Ezekiel 21:4, Leviticus 26:25, Ezekiel 21:3

18and if these three men were in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they will deliver neither sons, nor daughters, but only they themselves will be delivered.

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19Then, if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and I pour out my indignation upon it with blood, so that I take away from it both man and beast,

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Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 7:8, 2 Samuel 24:15, Jeremiah 14:12

20and if Noah, and Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they will deliver neither son, nor daughter, but they will deliver only their own souls by their justice.

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Ezekiel 14:14, Ezekiel 14:14, Acts 10:35, Psalms 33:18, Psalms 33:19

21For thus says the Lord God: Even though I will send upon Jerusalem my four most grievous judgments, sword and famine and harmful beasts and pestilence, so that I destroy from it both man and beast,

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Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 14:15

22yet still there shall be left within it some who will be saved, who shall lead away their own sons and daughters. Behold, they will enter to you, and you will see their way and their accomplishments. And you shall be consoled concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, concerning all the things that I have brought to bear upon it.

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Ezekiel 12:16, Ezekiel 12:16, Ezekiel 20:43, Ezekiel 20:43, Hebrews 12:6

23And they shall console you, when you see their ways and their accomplishments. And you shall know that I have not acted to no purpose in all that I have done within it, says the Lord God.”

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Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Daniel 9:7