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14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
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14:2 And the word of YASHUWAH came unto me, saying,
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14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
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14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the Sovereign YASHUWAH; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I YASHUWAH will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols;
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14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
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14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Sovereign YASHUWAH; Repent, and turn yourselves* from your* idols; and turn away your* faces from all your* abominations.
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14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourns in Israel, which separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I YASHUWAH will answer him by myself:
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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; and you* shall know that I am YASHUWAH.
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14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I YASHUWAH have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
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14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeks unto him;
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14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their Elohim, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH.
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14:12 The word of YASHUWAH came again to me, saying,
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14:13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
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14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH.
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14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
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14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
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14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
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14:18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
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14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
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14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
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14:21 For thus says the Sovereign YASHUWAH; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
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14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you*, and you* shall see their way and their doings: and you* shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
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14:23 And they shall comfort you*, when you* see their ways and their doings: and you* shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Sovereign YASHUWAH.
