1 有几个以色列的长老来见我， 在我面前坐下。

2 耶和华的话就临到我说：

3 "人子啊！ 这些人已经把他们的偶像接到心里去， 把那陷他们在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前， 我怎能让他们向我求问呢？

4 因此， 你要告诉他们， 对他们说： ‘主耶和华这样说： 以色列家的人中， 凡把他的偶像接到心里去， 把那陷自己在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前， 却又来见先知的， 我耶和华必按他拜众多偶像的罪报应他，

5 好夺回以色列家的心。他们众人因自己的偶像， 与我疏远。’

6 "因此， 你要对以色列家说： ‘主耶和华这样说： 回转吧！ 转离你们的偶像！ 转脸离弃你们一切可憎之物吧！

7 因为以色列家的人中， 或是在以色列寄居的外族人中， 凡与我疏远， 把他们的偶像接到心里去， 把那陷自己在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前， 却又来见先知， 要为自己求问我的， 我耶和华必亲自报应他；

8 我必向那人变脸， 使他成为别人的鉴戒和讥笑的对象； 我要把他从我子民中剪除； 你们就知道我是耶和华。

9 如果有先知被欺骗说一句话， 是我耶和华任那先知受欺骗的； 我必伸手攻击他， 把他从我子民以色列中除灭。

10 他们必担当自己的罪孽； 求问的人的罪孽怎样， 先知的罪孽也必怎样。

11 这样， 以色列家必不再走迷路离开我， 也不再因他们的一切过犯玷污自己； 他们要作我的子民， 我要作他们的 神。这是主耶和华的宣告。’"

12 耶和华的话又临到我说：

13 "人子啊！ 如果一国行了不忠的事得罪我， 我就必伸手攻击那国， 断绝那地的粮食， 使饥荒临到那地， 使人和牲畜都从那地剪除，

14 即使有挪亚、但以理和约伯这三个人， 他们也只能因自己的义救自己的性命。这是主耶和华的宣告。

15 如果我使猛兽经过那地， 蹂躏那地， 使它荒凉， 以致因为这些兽的缘故， 没有人敢经过；

16 即使有这三个人在其中， 我指着我的永生起誓， 他们只能救自己， 连儿女也不能救， 那地却仍然荒凉。这是主耶和华的宣告。

17 如果我使刀剑临到那地， 说： ‘愿刀剑经过那地， 好让我把人和牲畜从那地剪除。’

18 即使有这三个人在其中， 我指着我的永生起誓， 他们只能救自己， 连儿女也不能救。

19 如果我使瘟疫流行那地， 借着流血的事把我的烈怒倾倒在那地上， 使人和牲畜都从那地剪除；

20 即使当中有挪亚、但以理和约伯， 我指着我的永生起誓， 他们只能因自己的义救自己的性命， 连儿女也不能救。这是主耶和华的宣告。"

21 主耶和华这样说： "我打发刀剑、饥荒、猛兽和瘟疫这四样可怕的刑罚临到耶路撒冷， 要把人和牲畜从那里剪除的时候， 那情况岂不更严重吗？

22 其中将有剩下逃脱的人， 连同儿女被带出来， 他们来到你们那里， 你们看见他们的所行所为， 就会因我降给耶路撒冷的一切灾祸， 得了安慰。

23 你们看见了他们的所行所为， 就必得安慰， 因为你们知道我在耶路撒冷所行的一切， 并不是无缘无故的。这是耶和华的宣告。"

1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself: 8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh unto him; 11 that the house of Israel may go no more 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, saith the Lord Jehovah.

12 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast; 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah. 15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts; 16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast; 18 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast; 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord Jehovah.