Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts: Hearken to the word of the Lord.
So said the Lord God: Woe is to the mad prophets who follow their desire and what they have not seen.
13:1-3

Have you not prophesied vain prophecy, and spoken false divination; yet you say, ‘The word of the Lord,’ while I did not speak.
Therefore, so said the Lord God: Since you spoke falsehoods and prophesied lies, therefore, behold I am against you, says the Lord God.
13:7-8

Now you, son of man, direct your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own heart, and prophesy about them.
13:17

1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts: Hearken to the word of the Lord.
3 So said the Lord God: Woe is to the mad prophets who follow their desire and what they have not seen.
4 Like foxes in ruins were your prophets, O Israel.
5 You have not gone up into the breaches nor have you built a fence for the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of the Lord.
6 They prophisied futility and false divination, those who say, ‘The word of the Lord,’ while the Lord did not send them, and expect their words to be fulfilled!
7 Have you not prophesied vain prophecy, and spoken false divination; yet you say, ‘The word of the Lord,’ while I did not speak.
8 Therefore, so said the Lord God: Since you spoke falsehoods and prophesied lies, therefore, behold I am against you, says the Lord God.
9 And My hand shall be against the prophets who prophesy vanity and the diviners of lies; in the counsel of My people they shall not be, and in the roster of the house of Israel they shall not be inscribed, and to the land of Israel they shall not come, and you will know that I am the Lord God.
10 Because, indeed because they misled My people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and it is building a flimsy wall, and behold they are plastering it with daub.
11 Say to the plasterers with daub, ‘Behold, it will fall. If there will be driving rain, then you, gigantic hailstones, will fall, and a storm wind will crack [it].
12 And behold, the wall has fallen! Will it not be said to you, “Where is the plaster that you have plastered?”‘
13 Therefore, so said the Lord God: I will cause a storm wind to crack [the wall] with My fury, and there shall be a driving rain with My wrath, and gigantic hailstones with fury to destroy [it].
14 And I shall demolish the wall that you plastered with daub, and I shall make it reach the ground, and its foundation will be bared, and it will fall, and you will perish in its midst, and you will know that I am the Lord.
15 And I shall spend My fury on the wall and on those who plaster it with daub, and I shall say to you, ‘The wall is not here, neither are those who plaster it.’
16 -The prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem, and those who envision for it a vision of peace when there is no peace, says the Lord God.
17 Now you, son of man, direct your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own heart, and prophesy about them.
18 And you shall say; So said the Lord God: Woe to those who sew cushions on all armpits, and who make the veils for the head of people of every height, to ensnare souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people and sustain your own souls?
19 You have profaned Me before My people for fistfuls of barley and for morsels of bread to slay souls that will not die and to sustain souls that will not live, by your lying to My people, who hearken to lies.
20 Therefore, so said the Lord God: Behold, I am against your cushions with which you ensnare the souls, [causing them] to fly away, and I shall tear them off your arms, and I shall free the people whose souls you ensnare to make them fly away.
21 And I shall tear your veils and I shall save My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be ensnared, and you will know that I am the Lord.
22 Because you break the heart of the righteous one with falsehood, whereas I did not pain him, and to strengthen the hands of the wicked one, keeping him from repenting of his way, to sustain him.
23 Therefore, you shall neither prophesy vanity nor divine divinations any longer, and I shall save My people from your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.”

The soul that sins, it shall die; a son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
18:20

Do I desire the death of the wicked? says the Lord God. Is it not rather in his repenting of his ways that he may live?
18:23

When a righteous man repents of his righteousness and does wrong and dies on that account; for the wrong that he has done he should die.
And when a wicked man repents of his wickedness that he has done, and does justice and righteousness, he will keep his soul alive.
He will see and repent of all his transgressions that he has committed-he shall surely live; he shall not die.
18:26-28

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “What do you mean that you use this parable over the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
3 As truly as I live, says the Lord God, you shall no longer use this parable in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are Mine. Like the soul of the father, like the soul of the son they are Mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.
5 So a man who is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,
6 And does not eat [offerings of meals] on the mountains, and does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; neither defiles his fellow man’s wife nor approaches a woman in her period of separation,
7 And wrongs no man; what has been pledged for a debt he returns; [he] has committed no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and clothes the naked with garments,
8 Does not lend on interest, nor does he take any increase on a loan, keeps his hand back from wrong, executes true judgment between man and man,
9 Has walked in My statutes, and has kept My ordinances to deal truly-he is a righteous man; he shall surely live, says the Lord God.
10 If he beget a profligate son, a shedder of blood, and he commits upon his brother any of these [crimes].
11 And he does not do all these [good deeds], but has even eaten [offerings of a meal] to the mountains and defiled his fellow man’s wife;
12 Wronged the poor and the needy, committed robberies, did not return pledges, lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination;
13 Gave out on interest, accepted increase on loans -shall he then live? He shall not live! He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood falls back on himself!
14 And behold, if he beget a son, who sees all the sins of his father which he has done, and sees and does not do likewise;
15 He did not eat on the mountains and did not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, did not defile his fellow man’s wife,
16 Wronged no man; did not retain any pledge, and committed no robbery; his bread he gave to the hungry and the naked he covered with clothes;
17 From the poor he kept his hand back, interest and increase he did not take; My ordinances he kept, in My laws did he walk-he shall not die for the sins of his father, he shall surely live.
18 [But] his father, because he illegally suppressed, committed robbery against his brother and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
19 Yet you say, “Why does the son not bear with the sin of the father?” But the son has practiced justice and righteousness, he has kept all My laws and he carries them out; he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sins, it shall die; a son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
21 And if the wicked man repent of all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My laws and executes justice and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed shall not be remembered regarding him: through his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
23 Do I desire the death of the wicked? says the Lord God. Is it not rather in his repenting of his ways that he may live?
24 And when the righteous repents of his righteousness and does wrong and does like all the abominations that the wicked man did, shall he live? All his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered; in his treachery that he has perpetrated and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right!’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not right? Is it not rather your ways that are not right?
26 When a righteous man repents of his righteousness and does wrong and dies on that account; for the wrong that he has done he should die.
27 And when a wicked man repents of his wickedness that he has done, and does justice and righteousness, he will keep his soul alive.
28 He will see and repent of all his transgressions that he has committed-he shall surely live; he shall not die.
29 And yet the house of Israel say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right!’ Is it My ways that are not right, O house of Israel? Is it not rather your ways that are not right?
30 Therefore, every man according to his ways I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord God: repent and cause others to repent of all your transgressions, and it will not be a stumbling block of iniquity for you.
31 Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, and why should you die, O house of Israel!
32 For I do not desire the death of him who dies, says the Lord God: so turn away and live!”

Now you, son of man, I have made you a lookout for the house of Israel, and you will hear a word from My mouth, and you shall warn them from Me.
When I say of a wicked man, Wicked one, you shall surely die! and you did not speak to warn the wicked man from his way-he is wicked and for his iniquity he will die, but his blood I shall require of your hand.
But you-if you warned a wicked man from his way, to repent thereof, and he did not repent of his way-he will die for his iniquity, and you have saved your soul.
33:7-9

When I say of the righteous that he will surely live, and he relied on his righteousness and committed injustice, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered, and for the injustices which he committed he shall die.
And when I say of the wicked man, “You shall surely die,” and he repents of his sin and performs justice and righteousness,
The wicked man will return the pledge, he will repay the theft; in the statutes of life he walked, not to commit injustice-he will surely live, he will not die.
All his sins that he sinned will not be remembered for him: he performed justice and righteousness; he will surely live.
33:13-16

1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, speak to the members of your people and say to them: When I bring armed attackers upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among themselves and appoint him for them as a lookout,
3 And he sees the army coming upon the land, and he sounds the shofar and warns the people,
4 And whoever hears the sound of the shofar and does not take heed, and the army comes and takes him, his blood will be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the shofar and did not take heed; his blood will be upon him, for had he taken heed, he would have saved his life.
6 But the lookout-should he see the army coming and not sound the shofar, and the people did not take heed, and an army came and took a soul from them-he was taken for his iniquity, but I shall require his blood from the hand of the lookout.
7 Now you, son of man, I have made you a lookout for the house of Israel, and you will hear a word from My mouth, and you shall warn them from Me.
8 When I say of a wicked man, Wicked one, you shall surely die! and you did not speak to warn the wicked man from his way-he is wicked and for his iniquity he will die, but his blood I shall require of your hand.
9 But you-if you warned a wicked man from his way, to repent thereof, and he did not repent of his way-he will die for his iniquity, and you have saved your soul.
10 Now you, son of man, say to the house of Israel; So have you spoken, saying: For our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and because of them we are melting away, so how can we live?
11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not wish for the death of the wicked, but for the wicked to repent of his way so that he may live. Repent, repent of your evil ways, for why should you die, O house of Israel!
12 And you, son of man, say to the members of your people: The righteousness of the righteous will not save him on the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked-he will not stumble upon it on the day of his repentance of his wickedness, and a righteous man cannot live with it on the day of his sinning.
13 When I say of the righteous that he will surely live, and he relied on his righteousness and committed injustice, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered, and for the injustices which he committed he shall die.
14 And when I say of the wicked man, “You shall surely die,” and he repents of his sin and performs justice and righteousness,
15 The wicked man will return the pledge, he will repay the theft; in the statutes of life he walked, not to commit injustice-he will surely live, he will not die.
16 All his sins that he sinned will not be remembered for him: he performed justice and righteousness; he will surely live.
17 Now, should the members of your people say, ‘The Lord’s way is not right,’ but they-their way is not right.
18 When a righteous man repents of his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die because of them.
19 And when a wicked man repents of his wickedness and performs justice and righteousness, he shall live because of them.
20 But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is not right.’ Each one according to his ways I will judge you, O house of Israel.”
21 Now it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth [month], on the fifth [day] of the month of our exile, that the fugitive from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city was struck.”
22 Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening before the coming of the fugitive and He opened my mouth before [his] coming to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.
23 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 “Son of man, the dwellers of these ruins on the soil of Israel speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, and we are many-the land has [surely] been given to us for an inheritance.
25 Therefore, say to them: So said the Lord God, You eat on the blood and you raise your eyes to your pagan deities, and you shed blood-and you should inherit the land?
26 You stood on your sword, you committed abominations, and you contaminated each man his neighbor’s wife, and you should inherit the land?
27 So shall you say to them: So said the Lord God, As I live, I swear that those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, and those who are on the face of the field I have delivered to the beasts to devour them, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die from pestilence.
28 And I shall make the land desolate and waste, and the pride of its strength will be cut off, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate without a passerby.
29 And they will know that I am the Lord when I make the land desolate and waste because of all their abominations, which they have committed.
30 And you, son of man, the members of your people who talk about you beside the walls and in the entrances of the houses, and one talks to the other, one to his brother, saying, “Come now and listen to what the word is that is coming forth from before the Lord.”
31 And they will come to you as a public gathering, and they will sit before you as My people, and they will hear your words but not fulfill them; instead they make them into jokes with their mouth; their heart goes after their gain.
32 And you are to them as a song on the flute, which has a beautiful voice and plays well; they will hear your words, but will not fulfill them.
33 And when it comes-behold it is coming, and they will know that a prophet was in their midst.”