Study Desk

Again, if a right and good man turns away from his right and good way and sins, and I put a cause of falling in his way, he will die. Because you have not told him of the danger, he will die in his sin, and the right and good things he has done will not be remembered. But you will be guilty for his blood.

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you will tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.' He who hears, let him hear. And he who is not willing to hear, let him not be willing. For they are a sinful people.

When you have completed these, you must lie down a second time, but on your right side. And you must be under the weight of the sin of the people of Judah. I have set a time of forty days for you to do this, one day for each year.

But I said, "O Lord God! See, I have never been unclean. Since I was young until now, I have never eaten what died of itself or what was torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever come into my mouth."

But she has turned against My Laws worse than the nations and the lands around her. The people of Jerusalem have turned away from My Laws and have not obeyed them.'

"But I will leave some of you alive. For some of you will get away from the sword when you are spread among the lands and nations.

‘They have sounded the horn and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle. For My anger is against all their people.

When suffering comes, they will look for peace, but there will be none.

Trouble will come upon trouble, and one story will come after another. They will look for a special dream from a man of God, but the Law will be lost from the religious leader. And wisdom will be lost from the leaders.

And the Spirit said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? Do you see the hated sins that they are doing here to drive Me far from My holy place? But you will see even worse sins."

But to the others I heard Him say, "Go through the city after him, and destroy. Do not let your eye have pity. And do not let any sinner go without punishment.

Kill and destroy old men, young men, young women, little children, and women. But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at My holy house." So they started with the leaders who were in front of the Lord's house.

But as for Me, My eye will have no pity, and I will not leave any sinner without punishment. I will bring their wrong-doing upon their own heads."

When they moved, they went in any of their four ways without turning as they went, but followed the way the head was facing without turning as they went.

So the Lord God says, "Your dead whom you have laid in the city are the meat, and this city is the pot. But I will bring you out of it.

This city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat inside it. But I will punish you all the way to the land of Israel.

And you will know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my Laws or obeyed them, but have followed the ways of the nations around you."'"

So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "I sent them far away among the nations. I divided them among the countries. But still I was a holy place for them a little while in the countries where they had gone."'

But as for those whose hearts go after their hated and sinful things, I will bring their actions upon their own heads," says the Lord God.

"Son of man, you live among sinful people. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear. For they are sinful people.