9. As for the prophet, if he speaks a deceiving word, I the Lord am the one who deceives that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10. They will be punished for their own sins, the inquirer and the prophet alike,
11. so that the house of Israel may no longer stray from me, no longer defile themselves by all their sins. Then they shall be my people, and I shall be their God—oracle of the Lord God.
12. The word of the Lord came to me:
13. Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—
14. even if these three were in it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they could only save themselves by their righteousness—oracle of the Lord God.
15. If I summoned wild beasts to prowl the land, depopulating it so that it became a wasteland which no one would cross because of the wild beasts,
16. and these three were in it, as I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear they could save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved, but the land would become a wasteland.
17. Or if I bring the sword upon this land, commanding the sword to pass through the land cutting off from it human being and beast alike,
18. and these three were in it, as I live—oracle of the Lord God—they could save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved.
19. Or if I send plague into this land, pouring out upon it my bloody wrath, cutting off from it human being and beast alike,
20. even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live—oracle of the Lord God—they could save neither son nor daughter; they would save only themselves by their righteousness.
21. Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,