Ezekiel 14:12-23
1599 Geneva Bible
12 ¶ The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, [a]and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it.
14 Though these three men [b]Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, they should deliver but their own souls by their [c]righteousness, saith the Lord God.
15 If I bring noisome beasts into the land and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through, because of beasts,
16 Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall save neither sons nor daughters: they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be waste.
17 Or if I bring a sword upon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,
18 Though these three men were in the midst thereof, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
19 Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,
20 And though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the midst of it, As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord God, How much more when I send my (A)four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, even the sword, and famine, and the noisome beast, and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?
22 Yet behold, therein shall be left a [d]remnant of them that shall be carried away both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and their enterprises: 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 enterprises: and ye shall know, that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 14:13 Read Ezek. 4:16 and 5:17; Isa. 3:1.
- Ezekiel 14:14 Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together should pray for this wicked people, yet would I not hear them, read Jer. 15:1.
- Ezekiel 14:14 Meaning, that a very few (which he calleth the remnant, verse 22) should escape these plagues, whom God hath sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake.
- Ezekiel 14:22 Read Ezek. 5:3.
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