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Ezekiel 13

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1 καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος κυρίου πρός με λέγων 2 υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου προφήτευσον ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας τοῦ Ισραηλ καὶ προφητεύσεις καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς αὐτούς ἀκούσατε λόγον κυρίου 3 τάδε λέγει κύριος οὐαὶ τοῖς προφητεύουσιν ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ καθόλου μὴ βλέπουσιν 4 οἱ προφῆταί σου Ισραηλ ὡς ἀλώπεκες ἐν ταῖς ἐρήμοις 5 οὐκ ἔστησαν ἐν στερεώματι καὶ συνήγαγον ποίμνια ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Ισραηλ οὐκ ἀνέστησαν οἱ λέγοντες ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κυρίου 6 βλέποντες ψευδῆ μαντευόμενοι μάταια οἱ λέγοντες λέγει κύριος καὶ κύριος οὐκ ἀπέσταλκεν αὐτούς καὶ ἤρξαντο τοῦ ἀναστῆσαι λόγον 7 οὐχ ὅρασιν ψευδῆ ἑωράκατε καὶ μαντείας ματαίας εἰρήκατε 8 διὰ τοῦτο εἰπόν τάδε λέγει κύριος ἀν{Q'} ὧν οἱ λόγοι ὑμῶν ψευδεῖς καὶ αἱ μαντεῖαι ὑμῶν μάταιαι διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐ{F'} ὑμᾶς λέγει κύριος 9 καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς ὁρῶντας ψευδῆ καὶ τοὺς ἀποφθεγγομένους μάταια ἐν παιδείᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ μου οὐκ ἔσονται οὐδὲ ἐν γραφῇ οἴκου Ισραηλ οὐ γραφήσονται καὶ εἰς τὴν γῆν τοῦ Ισραηλ οὐκ εἰσελεύσονται καὶ γνώσονται διότι ἐγὼ κύριος

1 Word came to me from the Lord: 2 Son of man, on the prophets pronounce my doom, the prophets whom Israel heeds; would they prophesy after their own devices? Give them this message from the Lord: 3 Out upon the reckless prophets, the Lord God says, that follow their own whim, and vision have none! 4 Poor Israel, that such foxes as these should burrow among thy ruins! 5 What did you to restore the fortunes of the day, when the Lord’s stroke fell? Not for you to man the breach, to throw up a wall about Israel![1] 6 Vain vision and cheating hopes are theirs, that warrant from me have none, yet speak in the Lord’s name, and look to see their word fulfilled; 7 has the Lord spoken? Not the Lord, only your empty dreams, your lying oracles. 8 For these vain visions, these cheating hopes of yours, have at you! says the Lord God. 9 On false prophet and sightless seer my hand is raised in judgement; never shall they take part in the assembly of Israel, or have their names written in its muster-roll, or find a home in Israel’s land! So shall you learn what manner of God the Lord is.

1 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 2 Fili hominis, vaticinare ad prophetas Israël qui prophetant, et dices prophetantibus de corde suo:

Audite verbum Domini. 3
Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Væ prophetis insipientibus,
qui sequuntur spiritum suum,
et nihil vident! 4
Quasi vulpes in desertis prophetæ tui, Israël, erant. 5
Non ascendistis ex adverso,
neque opposuistis murum pro domo Israël,
ut staretis in prælio in die Domini. 6
Vident vana, et divinant mendacium,
dicentes: Ait Dominus,
cum Dominus non miserit eos:
et perseveraverunt confirmare sermonem. 7
Numquid non visionem cassam vidistis,
et divinationem mendacem locuti estis,
et dicitis: Ait Dominus,
cum ego non sim locutus? 8
Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Quia locuti estis vana, et vidistis mendacium,
ideo ecce ego ad vos, dicit Dominus Deus. 9
Et erit manus mea super prophetas
qui vident vana, et divinant mendacium:
in consilio populi mei non erunt,
et in scriptura domus Israël non scribentur,
nec in terram Israël ingredientur,
et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus:

10 ἀν{Q'} ὧν τὸν λαόν μου ἐπλάνησαν λέγοντες εἰρήνη εἰρήνη καὶ οὐκ ἦν εἰρήνη καὶ οὗτος οἰκοδομεῖ τοῖχον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀλείφουσιν αὐτόν εἰ πεσεῖται 11 εἰπὸν πρὸς τοὺς ἀλείφοντας πεσεῖται καὶ ἔσται ὑετὸς κατακλύζων καὶ δώσω λίθους πετροβόλους εἰς τοὺς ἐνδέσμους αὐτῶν καὶ πεσοῦνται καὶ πνεῦμα ἐξαῖρον καὶ ῥαγήσεται 12 καὶ ἰδοὺ πέπτωκεν ὁ τοῖχος καὶ οὐκ ἐροῦσιν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ ἀλοιφὴ ὑμῶν ἣν ἠλείψατε 13 διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος καὶ ῥήξω πνοὴν ἐξαίρουσαν μετὰ θυμοῦ καὶ ὑετὸς κατακλύζων ἐν ὀργῇ μου ἔσται καὶ τοὺς λίθους τοὺς πετροβόλους ἐν θυμῷ ἐπάξω εἰς συντέλειαν 14 καὶ κατασκάψω τὸν τοῖχον ὃν ἠλείψατε καὶ πεσεῖται καὶ θήσω αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται τὰ θεμέλια αὐτοῦ καὶ πεσεῖται καὶ συντελεσθήσεσθε με{T'} ἐλέγχων καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ κύριος 15 καὶ συντελέσω τὸν θυμόν μου ἐπὶ τὸν τοῖχον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀλείφοντας αὐτόν καὶ πεσεῖται καὶ εἶπα πρὸς ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ τοῖχος οὐδὲ οἱ ἀλείφοντες αὐτὸν 16 προφῆται τοῦ Ισραηλ οἱ προφητεύοντες ἐπὶ Ιερουσαλημ καὶ οἱ ὁρῶντες αὐτῇ εἰρήνην καὶ εἰρήνη οὐκ ἔστιν λέγει κύριος

10 How dared they cheat my people with false hopes, crying, All’s well, when in truth all went amiss? My people, that strove to build a wall, and here were the prophets plastering it with clay that had no straw in it! 11 Thine to warn these unskilful plasterers that the wall must needs crumble; here is a rain-storm brewing, and I mean to ply it with a volley of great hail-stones, and a tempestuous wind that scatters all before it; 12 crumble your wall, shall no one ask what became of the mortar that went to its plastering? 13 Like a tempestuous wind my anger shall break out, the Lord God says; like the rain-storm my indignation shall be, and like a volley of hail-stones my vengeance shall take toll of you; 14 down shall come the wall you plastered so ill, razed to earth, and all its foundations shewing, overthrown to your common ruin; so you shall learn what manner of God the Lord is. 15 Wall nor plasterer my vengeance shall spare; Down with the wall, my sentence is, and down with the plasterers that plastered it so unworkmanly, 16 Israel’s prophets, that gave Jerusalem comfort, the Lord says, promising all should be well when all went amiss.

10
eo quod deceperint populum meum,
dicentes: Pax, et non est pax:
et ipse ædificabat parietem,
illi autem liniebant eum luto absque paleis. 11
Dic ad eos qui liniunt absque temperatura, quod casurus sit:
erit enim imber inundans,
et dabo lapides prægrandes desuper irruentes,
et ventum procellæ dissipantem. 12
Siquidem ecce cecidit paries:
numquid non dicetur vobis:
Ubi est litura quam linistis? 13
Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Et erumpere faciam spiritum tempestatum in indignatione mea,
et imber inundans in furore meo erit,
et lapides grandes in ira in consumptionem. 14
Et destruam parietem quem linistis absque temperamento,
et adæquabo eum terræ,
et revelabitur fundamentum ejus:
et cadet, et consumetur in medio ejus,
et scietis quia ego sum Dominus. 15
Et complebo indignationem meam in pariete,
et in his qui liniunt eum absque temperamento:
dicamque vobis: Non est paries,
et non sunt qui liniunt eum: 16
prophetæ Israël, qui prophetant ad Jerusalem,
et vident ei visionem pacis, et non est pax,
ait Dominus Deus.

17 καὶ σύ υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου στήρισον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπὶ τὰς θυγατέρας τοῦ λαοῦ σου τὰς προφητευούσας ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτῶν καὶ προφήτευσον ἐ{P'} αὐτὰς 18 καὶ ἐρεῖς τάδε λέγει κύριος οὐαὶ ταῖς συρραπτούσαις προσκεφάλαια ἐπὶ πάντα ἀγκῶνα χειρὸς καὶ ποιούσαις ἐπιβόλαια ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν πάσης ἡλικίας τοῦ διαστρέφειν ψυχάς αἱ ψυχαὶ διεστράφησαν τοῦ λαοῦ μου καὶ ψυχὰς περιεποιοῦντο 19 καὶ ἐβεβήλουν με πρὸς τὸν λαόν μου ἕνεκεν δρακὸς κριθῶν καὶ ἕνεκεν κλασμάτων ἄρτου τοῦ ἀποκτεῖναι ψυχάς ἃς οὐκ ἔδει ἀποθανεῖν καὶ τοῦ περιποιήσασθαι ψυχάς ἃς οὐκ ἔδει ζῆσαι ἐν τῷ ἀποφθέγγεσθαι ὑμᾶς λαῷ εἰσακούοντι μάταια ἀποφθέγματα 20 διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τὰ προσκεφάλαια ὑμῶν ἐ{F'} ἃ ὑμεῖς συστρέφετε ἐκεῖ ψυχάς καὶ διαρρήξω αὐτὰ ἀπὸ τῶν βραχιόνων ὑμῶν καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ τὰς ψυχάς ἃς ὑμεῖς ἐκστρέφετε τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν εἰς διασκορπισμόν 21 καὶ διαρρήξω τὰ ἐπιβόλαια ὑμῶν καὶ ῥύσομαι τὸν λαόν μου ἐκ χειρὸς ὑμῶν καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσονται ἐν χερσὶν ὑμῶν εἰς συστροφήν καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ κύριος 22 ἀν{Q'} ὧν διεστρέφετε καρδίαν δικαίου ἀδίκως καὶ ἐγὼ οὐ διέστρεφον αὐτὸν καὶ τοῦ κατισχῦσαι χεῖρας ἀνόμου τὸ καθόλου μὴ ἀποστρέψαι ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὐτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς καὶ ζῆσαι αὐτόν 23 διὰ τοῦτο ψευδῆ οὐ μὴ ἴδητε καὶ μαντείας οὐ μὴ μαντεύσησθε ἔτι καὶ ῥύσομαι τὸν λαόν μου ἐκ χειρὸς ὑμῶν καὶ γνώσεσθε ὅτι ἐγὼ κύριος

17 There are women, too, among this people of mine who would play the prophetess as their own whim bids them. Turn upon these, son of man, and tell them their doom: 18 Out upon them, says the Lord God, the women who stitch an elbow-cushion for every comer, make a soft pillow for the heads of young and old![2] Men’s lives are their prey; shall they cast a net about the lives of Israelites, and save their own? 19 For a handful of meal, or a crust of bread, they will put me to shame[3] before my own people; will doom to life or death the undeserving, such credence they win from a people ever credulous. 20 Have at those elbow-cushions of yours, the Lord God says, the nets yonder silly birds are caught in! I mean to snatch them away from your grasp, and set the birds free, those lives you have ensnared with your prophesying.[4] 21 Your pillows shall be torn in pieces; I will rescue my people from your power, and they shall no longer be yours to ensnare; then you will learn what manner of God the Lord is. 22 You have brought woe on innocent lives, when I was fain to comfort them, confirmed the sinner in those evil ways that shall be his undoing; 23 now there shall be no more of your empty visions, there shall be no more divinings; I mean to save my people from your clutches, and you shall know the Lord’s power at last.

17 Et tu, fili hominis, pone faciem tuam contra filias populi tui quæ prophetant de corde suo: et vaticinare super eas, 18 et dic:

Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Væ quæ consuunt pulvillos sub omni cubito manus,
et faciunt cervicalia sub capite universæ ætatis
ad capiendas animas:
et cum caperent animas populi mei,
vivificabant animas eorum! 19
Et violabant me ad populum meum
propter pugillum hordei, et fragmen panis,
ut interficerent animas quæ non moriuntur,
et vivificarent animas quæ non vivunt,
mentientes populo meo credenti mendaciis. 20
Propter hoc hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Ecce ego ad pulvillos vestros,
quibus vos capitis animas volantes:
et dirumpam eos de brachiis vestris,
et dimittam animas quas vos capitis,
animas ad volandum. 21
Et dirumpam cervicalia vestra,
et liberabo populum meum de manu vestra,
neque erunt ultra in manibus vestris ad prædandum:
et scietis quia ego Dominus. 22
Pro eo quod mœrere fecistis cor justi mendaciter,
quem ego non contristavi,
et confortastis manus impii,
ut non reverteretur a via sua mala, et viveret: 23
propterea vana non videbitis,
et divinationes non divinabitis amplius,
et eruam populum meum de manu vestra:
et scietis quia ego Dominus.

[1] The military expressions in this verse are probably no more than a metaphor to illustrate the uselessness of the false prophets, like the building metaphor which follows.

[2] vv. 17-23. This passage remains hopelessly obscure. Some have thought that ‘cushions’ and ‘pillows’ are only a metaphor describing the false hopes raised by these diviners. But more probably they were magical contrivances; if the rare words used in the Hebrew have been rightly translated, we may perhaps suppose that the enquirer slept on pillows that were stuffed with magical herbs, etc., and took omens from his dream (cf. Virgil, Aeneid vii. 89). Even so, it is not clear whether these prophetesses were content to tell people’s fortunes, or whether (as the text seems to imply) they were in a position to swear away innocent lives by false accusations.

[3] Literally, ‘profane me’, an unusual expression. The meaning seems to be that by fathering their impostures on divine revelation the prophetesses brought religion into disrepute.

[4] ‘The nets yonder silly birds are caught in’; literally, ‘by which you catch flying souls’; ‘set the birds free, those lives you have ensnared’, literally, ‘set free the souls you catch, souls for flying’. The Hebrew text is no less obscure than the Latin.

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