Well-Deserved Judgment

14 Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me. ² The Lord’s message came to me: ³ “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity^[a] right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek^[b] me? ⁴ Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When anyone from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.^{[c] 5} I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’