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Ezekiel 20 📜 📕 ↷
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
1 AND it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth, the tenth of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to ask our Lord, and they sat before me.📜💬📚
2 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚
3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Why, are you come to ask me? Live I, that I will not answer you, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
4 Doest thou judge them, doest thou judge o son of man? Shew to them the abominations of their fathers.📜💬📚
5 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: In the day that I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the stock of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the Land of AEgypt, & lifted up my hand for them, saying: I, the Lord your God:📜💬📚
6 in that day I lifted up my hand for them, that I might bring them out of the Land of AEgypt, into a Land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk & honey, which is excellent among all lands.📜💬📚
7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, & in the idols of AEgypt be ye not polluted: I, the Lord your God.📜💬📚
8 And they provoked me, & would not hear me: every one did not cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they leave the idols of AEgypt: and I said I would pour out mine indignation upon them, and fill my wrath in them, in the midst of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
9 And I did for my name sake, that it might not be violated before the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they were, & among whom I appeared to them to bring them out of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness
10 I cast them out therefore of the Land of AEgypt, and brought them forth into the desert.📜💬📚
11 And I gave them my precepts, and I shewed to them my judgements, which a man doing, shall live in them.📜💬📚
12 Moreover also my sabbaths I gave to them, to be a sign between me and them: & that they might know that I am the Lord sanctifying them.📜💬📚
13 And the houses of Israel provoked me in the desert; they walked not in my precepts, and my judgements they rejected, which a man doing shall live in them: & my sabbaths they violated exceedingly. I said therefore I would pour out my fury upon them in the desert, and would consume them.📜💬📚
14 And I did for my name sake, lest it should be violated before the Gentiles, from which I cast them out, in their sight.📜💬📚
15 I therefore lifted up my hand upon them in the desert, not to bring them into the Land, which I gave them flowing with milk and honey, the chief of all lands.📜💬📚
16 Because they rejected my judgements, and walked not in my precepts, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.📜💬📚
17 And mine eye was merciful on them, that I killed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.📜💬📚
18 But I said to their children in the wilderness: In the precepts of your fathers, walk not, neither keep ye their judgments, nor be polluted in their idols:📜💬📚
19 I, the Lord your God: walk ye in my precepts, and keep my judgements, and do them.📜💬📚
20 And sanctify ye my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and ye may know that I am the Lord your God.📜💬📚
21 And the children exasperated me, in my precepts they walked not: and my judgements they kept not, to do them: which when a man shall do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my fury upon them, and to fill my wrath in them in the desert.📜💬📚
22 But I turned away my hand, & did for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the Gentiles, out of which I did cast them forth in their eyes.📜💬📚
23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, that I might disperse them into nations, and scatter them into lands:📜💬📚
24 for that they had not done my judgements, and had rejected my precepts, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.📜💬📚
25 Therefore I also gave them precepts not good, & judgements, in which they shall not live.📜💬📚
26 And I polluted them in their gifts, when they offered all that opened the matrice, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚
Israel's Rebellion in the Land
27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, o son of man: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Yet also in this did your fathers blaspheme me, when contemning they had despised me:📜💬📚
28 and I had brought them into the Land, upon which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, & every woody tree, and there they immolated their victims: and there they gave the irritation of their oblation, and there they put the odour of their sweetness, and offered their libations.📜💬📚
29 And I said to them: What is the excels, unto which you go? & the name thereof was called Excels even to this day.📜💬📚
30 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith our Lord God: Surely in the way of your fathers you are polluted, and after their scandals you do fornicate.📜💬📚
31 And in the oblation of your gifts, when you make your children pass through the fire, you are polluted in all your idols unto this day: and shall I answer you, o house of Israel? Live I, saith our Lord God, that I will not answer you.📜💬📚
32 Neither shall the cogitation of your mind come to pass, saying: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the kindreds of the earth, that we may worship wood, and stones.📜💬📚
Judgment and Restoration
33 Live I, saith our Lord God, that in a strong hand, & in a stretched out arm, & in fury poured forth will I reign over you.📜💬📚
34 And I will bring you out of the peoples, and I will gather you out of the lands, in which you are dispersed, in a strong hand, & in a stretched out arm, & in fury poured forth will I reign over you.📜💬📚
35 And I will bring you into the desert of peoples, and will be judged there with you face to face.📜💬📚
36 As I contended in judgement against your fathers in the desert of the Land of AEgypt: so will I judge you, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
37 And I will subdue you to my sceptre, & will bring you into the bands of covenant.📜💬📚
38 And I will choose out of you the transgressors, and impious, & will bring them out of the land of their sojourning, and into the land of Israel they shall not enter: and you shall know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚
39 And you o house of Israel, Thus saith our Lord God: Walk you every one after your idols, & serve them. But and if in this also you hear me not, and shall pollute my holy name any more in your gifts, & in your idols:📜💬📚
40 in my holy mount, in the high mount of Israel, saith our Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all I say in the land, wherein they shall please me, & there will I require your first fruits, and the beginning of your tithes in all your sanctifications.📜💬📚
41 I will receive you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out of the peoples, & shall have gathered you out of the lands, into which you are dispersed, & I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations.📜💬📚
42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.📜💬📚
43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked deeds, in which you were polluted: & you shall mislike yourselves in your own sight, in all your malices, which you have done.📜💬📚
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done you good for my name sake, and not according to your evil ways, nor according to your most wicked deeds, o house of Israel, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
A Prophecy against the South
45 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop toward the southern wind, & prophesy to the forest of the southern field.📜💬📚
47 And thou shalt say to the southern forest: Hear the word of our Lord: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the South even to the North.📜💬📚
48 And all flesh shall see, that I, the Lord kindled it, neither shall it be quenched.📜💬📚
49 And I said: A a a, o Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?📜💬📚
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