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chapter 20
1
And it
came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the
month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and
they sat before me.
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel, and say
to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I
will not answer you, saith the Lord God.
4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, son of man,
declare to them the abominations of their fathers.
5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God : In the day
when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob:
and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them,
saying: I am the Lord your God:
6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them, to bring
them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them,
flowing with milk and honey, which excelleth amongst all lands.
7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the
scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am
the Lord your God.
8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they
forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon
them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might
not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among
whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the desert.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify
them.
13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert:
they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man
do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said
therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and
would consume them.
14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it
should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their
sight.
15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not
to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey,
the best of all lands.
16 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not
in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them
not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk
not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye
defiled with their idols:
19 I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and
observe my judgments, and do them.
20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign
between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
21 But their children provoked me, they walked not in
my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shell
live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my
indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
22 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's
sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought
them forth in their sight.
23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the
wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the
countries :
24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast
off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after
the idols of their fathers.
25 Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not
good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they
offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that
I am the Lord.
27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man,
and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers
blasphemed me, when they had despised and contemned me;
28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I
lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady
tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the
provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and
poured forth their libations.
29 And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to
which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.
30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the
Lord God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit
fornication with their abominations.
31 And you defile yourselves with all your: idols unto
this day, in the offering of your gifts, when you make your children pass
through the fire: and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith
the Lord God, I will not answer you.
32 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass,
by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth,
to worship stocks and stones.
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you
with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will
gather you out of the countries, in which you are scattered, I will reign over
you with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of people,
and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of
the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.
37 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will
bring you into the bands of the covenant.
38 And I will pick out from among you the
transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they
sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.
39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the
Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this
also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and
with your idols;
40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel,
saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I
say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require your
firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications.
41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when
I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out
of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in
the sight 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 doings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased
with yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you
committed.
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall
have done well by you for my own name's sake, and not according to your evil
ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the Lord
God.
45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying :
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the
south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south
field.
47 And any to the south forest: Hear the word of the
Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will
burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the dame 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 have
kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.
49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me:
Doth not this man speak by parables?
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