“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away(A) from your idols; turn your faces away from all your detestable things. For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me, setting up idols in his heart and putting a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me,[a] I, Yahweh, will answer him Myself. I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people.(B) Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:7 Lit Me for himself

“Therefore say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent!(A) Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!(B)

“‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner(C) residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block(D) before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire(E) of me, I the Lord will answer them myself. I will set my face against(F) them and make them an example(G) and a byword.(H) I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(I)

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