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Ezekiel 12:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see and see not, and ears to hear and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

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That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not.

Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking: they are revolted and gone away.

I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.

WOE to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin.

To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing may not understand.

And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people that hath revolted from me. They and their fathers have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.

And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of Israel:

And thou shalt speak by a figure, a parable, to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.

Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold, the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon.

I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint. Fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord. How much more when I shall be dead?

And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.

But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.

They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.

The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,

And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord their God.

And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them. And they followed vanities, and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see and that they may not understand with their heart.

And they have not hearkened to me nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck and have done worse than their fathers.




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