Ezekiel 14

Ezekiel 14:3

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 be enquired of at all by them?

Son of man, these men have given up their hearts to idolatry; and have wilfully laid blocks of iniquity before their own faces, that they may stumble thereat, and fall; contemptuously rejecting my counsels and ordinances: and is it fit, that such miscreants should come, as these hypocritically do, to enquire ought from me?

Ezekiel 14:4

I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols.

I, the Lord, will answer him that cometh; but not as he expecteth and desireth; rather, according to his deservings, in judgment and indignation, for those many and abominable idolatries whereof he is guilty.

Ezekiel 14:5

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart.

That I may convince the house of Israel in their own hearts, of their foul impiety and abominable wickedness.

Ezekiel 14:8

And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people.

I will oppose myself against that man, and inflict sensible judgments upon him; and will make him a fearful example of my just revenge, in every man’s mouth.

Ezekiel 14:9

And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, &c.

And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I, the Lord, in my just judgment, have given up that prophet to deceit, for a punishment, both of his own sin and of the notorious wickedness of the people; and I will accordingly stretch out my hand against him, in executing my vengeance upon him.

Ezekiel 14:10

And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity.

And the people also, which trusted to the counsels and predictions of those false prophets, shall be duly punished for their iniquity.

Ezekiel 14:14

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

Though there were men never so gracious with me, amongst you; even Noah, whom I saved from the deluge; Daniel, whom I saved from the common slaughter of the Chaldean wise-men, and after from the lions; Job, whom I delivered from those extreme sufferings, under the hand of Satan, and whose intercession I accepted for his friends: yet, they should no otherwise prevail