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Prophecy of Ezechiel 1077

11 Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth
I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the day of the month, that there came to me one
wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city
ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O is laid waste.
house of Israel? 22 And the hand of the Lord had been upon
12 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the me in the evening, before he that was fled came:
children of thy people: The justice of the just and he opened my mouth till he came to me in
shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was
sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not silent no more.
hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from 23 And the word of the Lord came to me,
his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to saying:
live in his justice, in what day soever he shall 24 Son of man, they that dwell in these ru-
sin. inous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying:
13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but
surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, com- we are many, the land is given us in possession.
mit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, 25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord
and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in God: You that eat with the blood and lift up
the same shall he die. your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed
14 And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?
surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do 26 You stood on your swords, you have com-
judgment and justice, mitted abominations, and every one hath defiled
15 And if that wicked man restore the pledge, his neighbours wife; and shall you possess the
and render what he had robbed, and walk in the land by inheritance?
commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: 27 Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord
he shall surely live, and shall not die. God: As I live, they that dwell in the ruinous
16 None of his sins, which he hath committed, places, shall fall by the sword: and he that is
shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be
and justice, he shall surely live. devoured: and they that are in holds, and caves,
17 And the children of thy people have said: shall die of the pestilence.
The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas 28 And I will make the land a wilderness, and
their own way is unjust. a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall
18 For when the just shall depart from his jus- fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be deso-
tice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them. late, because there is none to pass by them,
19 And when the wicked shall depart from his 29 And they shall know that I am the Lord,
wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice, when I shall have made their land waste and des-
he shall live in them. olate, for all their abominations which they have
20 And you say: The way of the Lord is not committed.
right, I will judge every one of you according to 30 And thou son of man: the children of thy
his ways, O house of Israel. people, that talk of thee by the walls, and in the
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of doors of the houses, and speak one to another