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Ezekiel 14:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal— "

Ezekiel 14:13

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11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord GOD.’”

12 The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

13 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal—

14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord GOD.

15 “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals—

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Ezekiel 14:1

"Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me."

Ezekiel 14:2

"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 14:3

"“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?"

Ezekiel 14:4

"Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,"

Ezekiel 14:5

"that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’"

Ezekiel 14:6

"“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations."

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