Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 559

EZEKIEL. Israel ,and of the foreigners who reside block of his passions before his face, yerb, and an outcast from My People. self from following Me, and has set up idols in·his heart, and placed the yet come to the Preacher for him

to enquire of Me l I, the EVER-L1v~ 1NG, will answer him for Myself! ami set My face against that man,

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13-20 20 2K 22 be revived, for your lies, by My people listening to your lies! Therefore thus says the MIGHTY LORD :—I am against the pillows that you hunt the flying souls with, and will tear them off from your arms, and liberate the souls you hunt,—the flying souls I S0 I will tear the pillows and deliver My people from your hands, and they shall be no more in your favour to be hunted. Then you will leam that I am the Even-mvrue; although you grieved the righthearted by falsehood, when I had not made them sad,—·and encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way of life. There- fore you shall not again have sham visions and divinations, for I will deliver My People from your hands. Then you will learn that I am the Evsn.·1.1v11~1o. ,3 @2ss¤gz in his wizlazh visitors. 14 Once some of the men from the nobles of Israel came and sat before me, when the EVER-LIVING com- manded me to say: Son of Adam! these men have

erected idols in their hearts, and put the block of their passions before their face. Ought they to enquire of Me ? Therefore speak to them, and say: ‘Thus says the M1GHTY LORD,—to every one of the House of Israel who sets up his idolsin his heart, and puts the block of his passions before his face, and comes to the prophet,—I, the EVER-LIVING will answer him about it, by his numerous idols, so that I may catch the House of Israel in their hearts, where they have separated themselves from Me, for their numerous idols. l`l1erefore say to the House of

Israel, Thus says the Misery Loan, ‘ Turn, turn from your idols! and from all your depravities,—-turn your faces! For every one of the House of with Israel, who has separated him- _and set him for a wonder, and pro- when delivering a command, I, the Evan-mvmo have not! misled that Preacher! So I will then extend My hand to him,_and desolate him among My People Israel! T h us they will bear their fault,-both the Preacher and en- quirer will be alike, so that the House of Israel may no more be deluded by seductions, and no more denle itself by all their wickedness, but may become My People, and I become says the Mronrv Loan. XO I I

®¤h'¤ Mzszagzgtu Wickzblg Qzrbzrsz ,£luti¤n¤. The command of the Evan-Lxvxivo also came to me to say Son of Adam l When a country

sins against Me very perversely, and I stretch My hand against it, and break from it the staff of bread, and send it famine, and cut off from it men and cattle, if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and job, were in it, they might deliver their own lives by says the MIGHTY If I sent savage beasts upon a country and it is desolated, so that no one crosses it because of the beasts, if these three men were in it, said the MIGHTY LORD, ‘ they should preserve neither sons nor daughters,—-·tl1ey should only preserve themselves,—·and the coun- try should become desolate! Or if I bring a sword against that country, and cut off from it men and cattle, and have said to the sword, ‘ Pass over the land, and cutoff from it men and cattle} although these three men says the they should not preserve sons nor daughters, but only preserve themselves. Or if I send a disease to that country, and pour out My indignation upon it in blood, to cut men and cattle off from it,-—although Noah, Daniel, and job were in it, by said the MIGHTY Loan, ‘they should not preserve sons or daughters by their goodness,——·they might preserve their own lives! thus said the MIGHTY LORD, ‘ what will it be when I send My four great judgments, plague, the sword, and famine, and beasts against jerusa- lem, to cut off from it men and cattle ? I2 16 18 20 2I

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