Ezekiel 11

Moreover ^athe spirit lift me up, and brought me unto ^bthe east gate of the Lord’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate ^cfive and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of ^dAzur, and ^ePelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. ²Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: ^3fwhich say, ^gIt is not near; ^hlet us build houses: ⁱthis city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. ⁴Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. ^5kAnd the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know ^lthe things that come into your mind, every one of them. ^6mYe have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. ⁷Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ⁿYour slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, ^othey are the flesh, and this city is ⁱthe caldron: but ^pI will bring you forth out of the midst of it. ^8qYe have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God. ⁹And ^pI will bring you out of the midst thereof, and ^rdeliver you into the hands of strangers, and ^swill execute judgments among you. ^10tYe shall fall by the sword; I will judge you ^uin the border of Israel; ^vand ye shall know that I am the Lord. ^11oThis city shall not be your ⁱcaldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but ^sI will judge you ^uin the border of Israel: ^12vand ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but ^whave done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

¹³And it came to pass, when I prophesied, ^xthat ^ePelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then ^yfell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, ^zAh Lord God, ^ywilt thou ^amake a full end of the remnant of Israel? ¹⁴Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹⁵Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get ye far from the Lord: unto us is this land given in possession. ¹⁶Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet ^bwill I be to them as ^ca little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. ¹⁷Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^dI will even gather you from the people, ^dand assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, ^dand I will give you the land of Israel. ¹⁸And they shall come thither, and ^ethey shall take away all ^fthe detestable things thereof and all ^fthe abominations thereof from thence. ¹⁹And ^gI will give them one heart, and I will put ^ha new spirit within you; and I ⁱwill take the stony heart out of their flesh, and ⁱwill give them a heart of flesh: ^20kthat they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and ^lthey shall be my people, ^land I will be their God. ²¹But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of ^ftheir detestable things and ^ftheir abominations, ^mI will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God.

²²Then ⁿdid the cherubims lift up their wings, and ⁿthe wheels besides them; and ^nothe glory of the God of Israel was over them above. ²³And ^othe glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon ^pthe mountain which is on the east side of the city. ²⁴Afterwards ^qthe spirit took me up, and brought me ^rin vision by the Spirit of God ^sinto Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. ²⁵Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me.

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