Ezekiel 14:5
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That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.

I may

Ezekiel 14:9,10 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. . . .

Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

Zechariah 7:11-14 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

estranged

Deuteronomy 32:15,16 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. . . .

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Jeremiah 2:5,11-13,31,32 Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? . . .

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Romans 1:21-23,28,30 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

Romans 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

Ephesians 4:18 Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Colossians 1:21 And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

Context
Idolatrous Elders Condemned
4Therefore 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: 5That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.6Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Be converted, and depart from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.…
Cross References
Isaiah 1:4
Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Jeremiah 2:11
If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

Jeremiah 17:10
I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Zechariah 7:12
And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 11:8
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Lexicon
so that
לְמַ֛עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 4616: Purpose -- intent

I may take hold
תְּפֹ֥שׂ (tə·p̄ōś)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

of the hearts
בְּלִבָּ֑ם (bə·lib·bām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

of the [people]
בֵּֽית־ (bêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

of Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

For
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

because of their idols,
בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם (bə·ḡil·lū·lê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1544: A log, an idol

they are all
כֻּלָּֽם׃ (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

estranged
נָזֹ֙רוּ֙ (nā·zō·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

from Me.’
מֵֽעָלַ֔י (mê·‘ā·lay)
Preposition-m | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against


Additional Translations
so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me in their thoughts.

that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them.
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