Son of man, these men have set their notions upon their hearts, and the punishment of their iniquities they have set before their face. Shall I indeed answer them?
Therefore speak to them and say to them: Thus says the Lord: Any man, any man of the house of Israel who sets his notions upon his heart and places the punishment of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet — I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,
Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord, the Lord: Turn, and turn away from your practices and from all your impieties, and turn back your faces.
For any man, any man of the house of Israel and of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, who estranges himself from me and sets his devices upon his heart and places the punishment of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to inquire of him through me — I the Lord will answer him according to that in which he is entangled.
And I will set my face against that man, and I will make him a desolation and a ruin, and I will remove him from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
And if the prophet is led astray and speaks, I the Lord have led that prophet astray; and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
so that the house of Israel may no longer wander from me, and that they may no longer defile themselves with all their trespasses; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
Son of man, if a land sins against me by committing a trespass, then I will stretch out my hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and remove from it man and beast;
and these three men were in its midst — as I live, says the Lord — neither sons nor daughters would be saved, but they alone would be saved, and the land would become a desolation.
and Noe and Daniel and Job were in its midst — as I live, says the Lord — neither sons nor daughters would be left; they themselves by their righteousness would deliver their own souls.
Thus says the Lord: But if I also send my four evil punishments — sword and famine and evil beasts and death — upon Jerusalem, to destroy utterly from it man and beast,
And behold, there shall be left in it those of it who have been saved, who bring out from it sons and daughters; behold, they come out to you, and you shall see their ways and their devices, and you shall change your mind concerning the evils which I brought upon Jerusalem, all the evils which I brought upon it.
And they shall comfort you, because you shall see their ways and their devices; and you shall know that not without cause have I done all that I did in it, says the Lord.