Chapter
14
Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, these women have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Every woman of the house of Israel who takes her idols into her heart, and puts the stumbling block of her iniquity before her face, and comes to the prophetess; I Yahweh will answer her therein according to the multitude of her idols;
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates herself from me, and takes her idols into her heart, and puts the stumbling block of her iniquity before her face, and comes to the prophetess to inquire for herself of me; I Yahweh will answer her by myself:
and I will set my face against that woman, and will make her an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut her off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
If the prophetess be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophetess, and I will stretch out my hand on her, and will destroy her from the midst of my people Israel.
They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophetess shall be even as the iniquity of her who seeks to her;
that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Domina Yahweh.
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it woman and animal;
though these three women, Noa, Danielle, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Domina Yahweh.
If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no woman may pass through because of the animals;
though these three women were in it, as I live, says the Domina Yahweh, they should deliver neither daughters nor sons; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it woman and animal;
though these three women were in it, as I live, says the Domina Yahweh, they should deliver neither daughters nor sons, but they only should be delivered themselves.
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it woman and animal;
though Noa, Danielle, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Domina Yahweh, they should deliver neither daughter nor son; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
For thus says the Domina Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it woman and animal!
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both daughters and sons: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.
They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Domina Yahweh.