Ezekiel 20:4 Cross References - DouayRheims

⁴ If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.

³ And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

¹⁶ Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

¹⁴ Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

¹¹ And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good. ¹² When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence. ¹³ And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this place. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart.

¹ And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

¹⁴ And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts.

²⁰ And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.

² Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. ³ And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.

² And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

³⁶ And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?

⁴⁵ They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, ³⁰ And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. ³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. ³³ You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. ³⁵ That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

⁴⁷ Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres. ⁴⁹ For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute. ⁵⁰ That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.

³³ Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem. ³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not? ³⁵ Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

⁵¹ You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

² Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?