Ezekiel 14:5 Cross References - Coverdale

⁵ that the house of Israel maye be snared in their owne hertes, because they be clene gone fro me, for their Idols sakes.

¹⁵ And whan he was fat and had ynough, he waxed wanton. He is fat, and thicke, and smothe, & hath letten God go, that made him, and despysed the rocke of his saluacion. ¹⁶ He hath prouoked him to indignacion, thorow straunge goddes, and thorow abhominacion hath he angred him.

⁴ Alas for this synful people, which are experte in blasphemies, a frawerde generacion, vnnatural children. They haue forsaken the LORDE, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, and are gone bacward.

⁵ Thus saieth ye LORDE vnto you: What vnfaithfulnesse founde youre fathers in me, that they wente so farre awaye fro me, fallinge to lightnesse, and beinge so vayne?

¹¹ whether the Gentiles themselues deale so falsly & vntruly with their goddes (which yet are no goddes in dede.) But my people hath geuen ouer their hie honoure, for a thinge that maye not helpe them. ¹² Be astonished (o ye heauens) be afrayde, & abashed at soch a thinge, saieth the LORDE. ¹³ For my people hath done two euels. They haue forsake me the well of the water of life, and digged them pittes, yee vile and broken pittes, that holde no water.

³¹ Yf ye be the people of the LORDE, then herke vnto his worde: Am I the become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a londe that hath no light? Wherfore saieth my people then: we are falle of, and we wil come no more vnto the? ³² Doth a mayden forget hir raymet, or a bryde hir stomacher? And doth my people forget me so loge?

⁹ And yf that prophet be disceaued, when he telleth him a worde: then I the LORDE myself haue disceaued that prophet, and wil stretch forth myne honde vpon him, to rote him out of my people of Israel: ¹⁰ and they both shall be punyshed for their wickednesse. Acordinge to ye synne of him that axeth, shal the synne of the prophet be:

² Their herte is deuyded, therfore wil they be destroyed. The LORDE shall breake downe their ymages, he shal destroye their aulters.

¹¹ Neuertheles they wolde not take hede, but turned their backes, and stopped their eares, that they shulde not heare. ¹² yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone, lest they shulde heare the lawe & wordes, which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them. ¹³ And thus is it come to passe, that like as he spake and they wolde not heare: euen so they cried, and I wolde not heare (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) ¹⁴ but scatered them amonge all Gentiles, whom they knewe not. Thus the londe was made so desolate, yt there traualed no man in it nether to ner fro, for that pleasaunt londe was vtterly layed waist.

⁸ Thre shepherdes destroyed I in one moneth, for I might not awaye wt them, nether had they eny delyte in me.

²¹ in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded. ²² Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: ²³ and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes

²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,

³⁰ backbyters, despysers of God, doers of wronge, proude, boosters, bryngers vp of euell thinges, disobedient to their Elders,

⁷ For to be fleshly mynded is enemyte agaynst. God, syth it is not subdued vnto ye lawe of God, for it can not also.

⁷ Be not disceaued, God wil not be mocked. For what soeuer a man soweth, that shal he reape.

¹⁸ blynded in their vnderstondinge, beynge straungers fro the life which is in God thorow the ignoraunce that is in them, because of the blyndnes of their hert:

²¹ And you (which were in tymes past straungers and enemies, because youre myndes were set in euell workes) hath he now reconcyled

⁹ euen him, whose commynge is after the workynge of Sathan with all lyenge power, and signes and wonders, ¹⁰ and with all deceauablenes of vnrighteousnes amonge them that perishe, because they receaued not the loue of ye trueth, that they might haue bene saued. ¹¹ Therfore shal God sende them stroge delusion, that they shulde beleue lyes,

¹² Take hede brethren, that there be not in eny of you an euell hert of vnbeleue, to departe from the lyuynge God: