Ezekiel 14:5 - Easy To Read Version Why? Because I want to touch their heart. I want to show them I love them, even though they left me for their filthy idols.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That I may lay hold of the house of Israel in the thoughts of their own mind and heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols. American Standard Version (1901) that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Common English Bible So I’ll seize the hearts of the house of Israel, whose idols have made them all strangers to me. Catholic Public Domain Version so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols. |
The nation of Israel is full of guilt. This guilt is like a heavy weight the people have to carry. Those people are like bad children from evil families. They left the Lord. They insulted the Holy One (God) of Israel. They left him and treated him like a stranger.
But I am the Lord,\par and I can look into a person’s heart.\par I can test a person’s mind.\par I can decide what each person should have.\par I can give each person the right payment\par for the things he does.\par
This is what the Lord says:\par “Do you think that I was not fair\par to your ancestors {\cf2\super [4]} ?\par Is that why they turned away from me?\par Your ancestors worshiped worthless idols,\par and they became worthless themselves.\par
The people of Israel tried to trick God.\par But now they must accept their guilt.\par The Lord will break down their altars. {\cf2\super [98]} \par He will destroy their memorial stones. {\cf2\super [99]} \par
I fired the three shepherds all in one month. I became angry at the sheep, and they began to hate me.
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.
and say evil things about each other. Those people hate God. They are rude and conceited and boast about themselves. Those people invent ways of doing evil. They don’t obey their parents,
Why is this true? Because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then that person is against God. That person refuses to obey God’s law. And really that person is not able to obey God’s law.
Don’t be fooled: You cannot cheat God. A person harvests only the things he plants. {\cf2\super [75]}
Those people don’t understand. They know nothing, because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.
At one time you were separated from God. You were God’s enemies in your minds, because the evil things you did were against God.
So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you is sinful, and refuses to believe, and stops following the living God.