1Then some elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.2The word of the LORD came to me, saying.3Son of Adam, these men have lifted up their idols to their heart, and they have set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces—should I inquire for them at all?4Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any man, any man from the house of Israel, who brings up his idols to his heart and places a stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet—I, the LORD, have answered him coming in the multitude of his idols.5in order to catch the house of Israel in their heart, which they have estranged from me through their idols, all of them.6Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Return and turn away from your idols and from all your abominations; turn your faces away.7For any man of the house of Israel, or of the resident aliens who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me and brings up his idols to his heart, and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me through him—I the LORD will answer him myself.8And I will set my face against that man, and I will destroy him as a sign and for mashalim, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know that I am the LORD.9And the prophet, if he entices and speaks a word—I, the LORD, have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.10They will bear their iniquity like the iniquity of the inquirer, like the iniquity of the prophet: it will be.11so that the house of Israel no longer goes astray after their idols, and no longer defiles themselves by all their transgressions, and they will be to me for a people and I will be to them for God, utterance of the Lord GOD.