Lamentationes 14:7

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quia homo, homo de domo Israël, et de proselytis quicumque advena fuerit in Israël, si alienatus fuerit a me, et posuerit idola sua in corde suo, et scandalum iniquitatis suæ statuerit contra faciem suam, et venerit ad prophetam ut interroget per eum me: ego Dominus respondebo ei per me:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Quia homo, homo de domo Isra�l, et de proselytis quicumque advena fuerit in Isra�l, si alienatus fuerit a me, et posuerit idola sua in corde suo, et scandalum iniquitatis su� statuerit contra faciem suam, et venerit ad prophetam ut interroget per eum me : ego Dominus respondebo ei per me :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quia omnis homo de domo Israel et de advenis, quicumque advena fuerit in Israel, si alienatus fuerit a me et posuerit idola sua in corde suo et scandalum iniquitatis suae statuerit contra faciem suam et venerit ad prophetam, ut interroget per eum me, ego Dominus respondebo ei per me;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of the stranger: Exodus 12:48, Exodus 20:10, Leviticus 16:29, Leviticus 20:2, Leviticus 24:22, Numbers 15:15, Numbers 15:29

separateth: Hosea 4:14, Hosea 9:10, Jude 1:19

and setteth: Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:4

and cometh: Ezekiel 33:30-32, 2 Kings 8:8-15, Isaiah 58:1, Isaiah 58:2, Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 37:1-3, Jeremiah 37:9, Jeremiah 37:10, Jeremiah 37:17, Jeremiah 38:14-23

by: Ezekiel 14:4, Ezekiel 14:7, Ezekiel 14:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:26 - shalt Deuteronomy 29:20 - will not spare 1 Kings 14:6 - why feignest Job 31:7 - mine heart Psalms 34:16 - face Isaiah 19:14 - hath mingled Isaiah 30:28 - causing Isaiah 63:17 - why Jeremiah 44:11 - I will Ezekiel 3:20 - and I lay Ezekiel 7:19 - it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity Ezekiel 14:10 - the punishment Ezekiel 20:3 - As I Hosea 4:8 - set their heart on their iniquity Acts 7:42 - and gave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For everyone of the house of Israel,.... King and subjects, princes and people, high and low, rich and poor, of every rank, sex, and age:

or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel; the proselytes; whether of righteousness, such as were circumcised, and embraced the Jewish religion; or of the gate, who were only inhabitants with them; one as another were obliged to worship the God of Israel, and abstain from idolatry; there was but one law to the Israelite and to the stranger, respecting this matter:

which separateth himself from me; from the worship of God, and so from communion with him; turns his back on him, and becomes an apostate from him, by joining himself with idols:

and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face; these things are repeated, partly to observe the heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; and partly to show the stupidity of this people, which required things to be said over and over, before they could take them in, and be convinced of their evil:

and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; this explains what such persons would come to a prophet for, Ezekiel 14:4; and exposes their hypocrisy:

I the Lord will answer him by myself; not by the prophet to whom he comes, but by himself: or, "in my word", as the Targum; yet not by words, but by blows; not in mercy, but in wrath; and in such manner, that it shall appear to come from the Lord, and to be according to truth and justice.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stranger - They who sojourned among Israel, though they were not of Israel, were bound to abstain from idol-worship Leviticus 17:10; Leviticus 20:2.

By myself - Or, as in Ezekiel 14:4, “according to” Myself. He who comes to inquire with a heart full of idolatry shall have his answer,

(1) “according to the multitude of his idols” - in delusion,

(2) “according to the holiness of God” - in punishment.

The inquiry was hypocritical and unreal - but God will answer not by the mouth, but by the hand, not by word but by deed, not by speech but by a scourge.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 14:7. And cometh to a prophet — Generally supposed to mean a false prophet.

I the Lord will answer him by myself — I shall discover to him, by my own true prophet, what shall be the fruit of his ways. So, while their false prophets were assuring them of peace and prosperity, God's prophets were predicting the calamities that afterwards fell upon them. Yet they believed the false prophets in preference to the true. Ahab, about to engage with the Syrians, who had possession of Ramoth-Gilead, asked Micaiah, the prophet of the Lord, concerning the event; who told him he should lose the battle. He then inquired of Zedekiah, a false prophet, who promised him a glorious victory. Ahab believed the latter, marched against the enemy, was routed, and slain in the battle, 1 Kings 22:10, &c.