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Ezekiel 14:12-14
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 14:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 Individual Responsibility.[a] This word of the Lord came to me: 13 Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of food, inflicting famine on it and removing from its midst all of its inhabitants and its animals, 14 even if the three men, Noah, Daniel,[b] and Job were there, they could save no one but themselves by their own righteousness, says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 14:12 This passage states a basic idea in Ezekiel’s teaching and will be repeated at greater length in other passages (Ezek 18; 33:10-20). The prophet Jeremiah has already said that the Lord will no longer yield to the prayers of the great intercessors unless the people are converted. Ezekiel is even more explicit: the salvation or ruin of individuals depends not on their forebears, or on solidarity with the people, or even on their own past; they are each responsible for themselves individually and according to their dispositions at any moment; they will be repaid each according to their conduct.
- Ezekiel 14:14 Daniel: a famous sage of the ancient East; a Phoenician poem speaks of him. He will also be the chief character of the biblical Book of the same name.
