The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 13:14 (NKJV)
So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 13:15 (NIV)

So I will pour out my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you,
‘The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 13:16 (NIV)

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace,
declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 13:17 (NKJV)
“Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 13:18 (NKJV)
and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 13:19 (NRSV)

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who
should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 13:20 (NRSV)

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against your bands with which you hunt lives; I will tear them from your arms,
and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 13:21 (NKJV)
I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 13:22 (NKJV)
“Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 13:23 (NIV)

therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will save my people from your hands.
And then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 14:1 (NIV)

Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 14:2 (NIV)

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 14:3 (NIV)

‘Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling-blocks before their faces.
Should I let them enquire of me at all?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 14:4 (ESV)
Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 14:5 (KJV)
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 14:6 (ESV)
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 14:7 (CSB)

For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the Lord, will answer him myself.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 14:8 (CSB)

I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 14:9 (NKJV)
“And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the LORD have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 14:10 (KJV)
And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;