Ezekiel

Judgment on Nations and the Limits of Intercession

Chapter 14

¹² And the word of the LORD came to me, saying. ¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, then I will stretch out my hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast. ¹⁴ Even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in her midst, they in their righteousness would deliver their souls alone, says the Lord GOD. ¹⁵ If I cause an evil living creature to pass through the land and it bereaves her and she becomes desolation without a passer from the face of the living creature. ¹⁶ These three men in her midst—as I live, declares the Lord GOD—if they deliver sons or daughters, they alone will be delivered, and the land will become a desolation. ¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon the land and say, "Sword, pass through the land," and I cut off from it man and beast. ¹⁸ And these three men in her midst—as I live, says the LORD—they will not deliver sons and daughters, for they alone will be delivered. ¹⁹ Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast. ²⁰ And Noah, Daniel, and Job in her midst—as I live, says the Lord GOD—if a son, if a daughter, they will deliver; by their righteousness they will deliver their nephesh. ²¹ For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send against Jerusalem four disastrous judgments—sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence—to cut off from it man and beast. ²² And behold, though a remnant remains in it, as they come out to you, you will see their way and their deeds, and you will be consoled regarding the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it. ²³ And they will comfort you when you see their way and their doings, and you will know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord GOD.

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