Ezechiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et vos, domus Israël, hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Singuli post idola vestra ambulate, et servite eis. Quod si et in hoc non audieritis me, et nomen meum sanctum pollueritis ultra in muneribus vestris et in idolis vestris :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὑμεῖς, οἶκος Ἰσραήλ, τάδε λέγει κύριος Κύριος Ἕκαστος τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὐτοῦ ἐξάρατε, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εἰ μὴ ὑμεῖς εἰσακούετέ μου, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά μου τὸ ἅγιον οὐ βεβηλώσετε οὐκέτι ἐν τοῖς δώροις ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ὑμῶν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאַתֶּ֨ם בֵּֽית יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל כֹּֽה אָמַ֣ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה אִ֤ישׁ גִּלּוּלָיו֙ לְכ֣וּ עֲבֹ֔דוּ וְאַחַ֕ר אִם אֵינְכֶ֖ם שֹׁמְעִ֣ים אֵלָ֑י וְאֶת שֵׁ֤ם קָדְשִׁי֙ לֹ֣א תְחַלְּלוּ ע֔וֹד בְּמַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם וּבְגִלּוּלֵיכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Walk, &c. It is not an allowance, much less a commandment to serve idols; but a figure of speech, by which God would have them to understand, that if they would walk after their idols, they must not pretend to serve him at the same time: for that he would by no means suffer such a mixture of worship. (Challoner) (St. Jerome)
Continue, if you dare, to serve idols. I will still bring you back. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "take away each your devices; and then if you hear me, (Grabe's copy adds, not) and defile not my," &c. (Haydock)
God would rather have idolaters leave him wholly, than halt between two, (3 Kings xviii.) neither hot nor cold; (Apocalypse iii.) for such dishonour God's name the most, Romans ii. 24. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.