Ezekiel 14:10
Good News Translation
Both prophets and anyone who consults them will get the same punishment.

New Revised Standard Version
And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer and the punishment of the prophet shall be the same—

Contemporary English Version
and anyone who goes to that prophet for a message will be punished in the same way.

New American Bible
They will be punished for their own sins, the inquirer and the prophet alike,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.

they shall

Ezekiel 17:18-20 For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not escape. . . .

Ezekiel 23:49 And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Genesis 4:13 And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.

Numbers 5:31 The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.

Micah 7:9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

Galatians 6:5 For every one shall bear his own burden.

the punishment

Ezekiel 14:4,7,8 Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord will answer him according to the multitude of his uncleannesses: . . .

Deuteronomy 13:1-10 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, . . .

Deuteronomy 17:2-7 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, . . .

Jeremiah 6:14,15 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace. . . .

Jeremiah 8:11,12 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace. . . .

Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Revelation 19:19-21 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army. . . .

Context
Idolatrous Elders Condemned
9And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel. 10And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.11That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of hosts.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Ezekiel 14:9
And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel.

Ezekiel 14:11
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Ezekiel 14:9
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