1 Then came certain of the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto me, and sat before me.

2 And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying,

3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER); Every man of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols;

5 That I may take the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say unto the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER); Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

7 For every one of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], or of the stranger that sojourns in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], 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 the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will answer him by myself:

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 you2f shall know that I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

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];

11 That the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] 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 God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).

12 The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came again to me, saying,

13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my 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:

14 Though these three men, Noach [rest], Dani’el [God is Judge], and Job, were in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).

15 If I cause destructive (hurtful; noxious) beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil (plunder; prey; booty) it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

16 [Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

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:

18 Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

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:

20 Though No’ah [Motion], Dani’el [God is Judge], and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER); How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the sword, and the famine, and the destructive (hurtful; noxious) beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

22 Yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, [both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you2f shall see their way and their doings: and you2f shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], [even] concerning all that I have brought upon it.

23 And they shall comfort you, when you2f see their ways and their doings: and you2f shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).