RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

Beit Yisrael?
12 Therefore, you Ben-adam, say to the children of your
people, The tzedakah of the tzadik shall not deliver him in
the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the
wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he makes
teshuvah from his wickedness; neither shall the tzadik be
able to live because of his tzedakah in the day that he
sins.
13 When I shall say to the tzadik, that he shall surely live;
if he trusts in his own tzedakah, and commits iniquity, all
his tzedakah shall not be remembered; but for the iniquity
that he has committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die;
if he makes teshuvah from his sin, and does that which is
just and right;
15 If the wicked restores the pledge, and returns what he
has robbed, and has a halacha in the chukim of chayim,
without committing further iniquity; he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be
remembered: he has done that which is according to
Torah and mishpat; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of your people say, The derech of
vuvh is not equal: but as for them, their derech is not
equal.
18 When the tzadik turns from his tzedakah, and commits
iniquity, he shall even die because of it.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that
which is according to Torah and mishpat, he shall live
because of it.
20 Yet you say, The derech of vuvh is not equal. O Beit
Yisrael, I will judge you every one after his own derachot.
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our exile, in
the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month that one that
had escaped out of Yahrushalayim came to me, saying,
The city has been hit!
22 Now the hand of vuvh was upon me the evening,
before the man that escaped came; and He had opened my
mouth, before he came to see me in the morning; and my
mouth was opened, and I was no longer silent.
23 Then the word of vuvh came to me, saying,
24 Ben-adam, they that inhabit the ruins of the land of
Yisrael are saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited
the land: but we are many; the land is given to us for our
inheritance.
25 Therefore say to them, This says the Master vuvh; You
eat food with the dahm, and lift up your eyes toward your
idols, and shed dahm: shall you still possess the land?
26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination,
and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: so shall you
possess the land?
27 Say this to them, This says the Master vuvh; As I live,
surely they that are in the ruins shall fall by the sword,
and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to
be devoured, and they that are in the strongholds and the
caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land totally desolate, and the pride of
her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Yisrael
shall be desolate, that none shall pass through her.
29 Then shall they know that I am vuvh, when I have laid
the land totally desolate because of all their abominations
which they have committed.
30 Also, you Ben-adam, the children of your people still
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are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of
the houses, they speak to each other saying, Please come
and hear what the word is that comes out from vuvh.
31 And they come to you, as people do, and they sit before
you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will
not do them: for with their mouth they show you much
ahava, but their lev goes after their own greed.
32 And, see, you are to them as a very lovely shir of one
that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them
not. 2495
33 And when this comes to pass – see, it will come – then
shall they know that a navi has been among them.
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And the word of vuvh came to me, saying,
2 Ben-adam, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisrael,
prophesy, and say to them, This says the Master vuvh to
the shepherds; Woe to the shepherds of Yisrael that do
feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the
flocks? 2496
3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with wool, you
kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock. 2497
4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have
you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound
up those who were broken, neither have you brought back
those who were driven away, 2498 neither have you sought
those which were lost; 2499 but with force and with cruelty
have you ruled over them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd:
and they became food to all the beasts of the field, 2500
where they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every high hill: yes, My flock was scattered upon all
the face of the earth, and none did search, or seek after
them. 2501
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of vuvh;
8 As I live, says the Master vuvh, surely because My flock
became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast
of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did
My shepherds search for My flock, 2502 but the shepherds
fed themselves, and fed not My flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of vuvh;
10 This says the Master vuvh; See, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require My flock at their hand, and
cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall
the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver
My flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for
them. 2503
11 For this says the Master vuvh; See, I, even I, will both
search My sheep, and seek them out. 2504
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is
among his sheep 2505 that are scattered; so will I seek out
My sheep, and will deliver them 2506 out of all places
where they have been scattered 2507 in the cloudy and
dark day. 2508
13 And I will bring them out from the nations, and gather
them 2509 from the countries, and will bring them to their
own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Yisrael by
the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the
country. 2510
14 I will feed them in a tov pasture, and upon the high
mountains of Yisrael shall their fold be: there shall they
lie down in a tov fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed