Ezekiel 11

CHAPTER 11

Judgment on Evil Counselors

¹Moreover, the ^aSpirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Yahweh which faced eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate, there were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and ^bPelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.

²He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise wickedness and ^agive evil counsel in this city,

³who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. ¹This ^acity is the pot, and we are the flesh.’

⁴“Therefore, ^aprophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!”

⁵Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and He said to me, “Say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “So you say, house of Israel, for ^aI know what comes up in your ^bspirit.

⁶“You have ^amultiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with ¹them.”

⁷‘Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Your ^aslain whom you have laid in the midst of ¹the city are the flesh, and this city is the pot; but ²I will ^bbring you out of it.

⁸“You have ^afeared a sword; so a sword I will ^bbring upon you,” Lord Yahweh declares.

⁹“And I will bring you out of the midst of ¹the city and give you into the hands of ^astrangers and ^bexecute judgments against you.

¹⁰“You will ^afall by the sword. I will judge you to the ^bborder of Israel; so you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹¹“This city will ^anot be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.

¹²“Thus you will know that I am Yahweh; for you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you ^aexecuted My judgments, but have executed according to the judgments of the ^bnations around you.” ’ ”

¹³Now it happened as I prophesied, that ^aPelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “^bAlas, Lord Yahweh! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to complete destruction?”

Yahweh Will Gather the Exiles

¹⁴Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁵“Son of man, your brothers, your ¹relatives, ²your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from Yahweh; this land has been given to ^aus as a possession.’

¹⁶“Therefore say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a ^asanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.” ’

¹⁷“Therefore say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will ^agather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’

¹⁸“When they come there, they will ^aremove all its ^bdetestable things and all its abominations from it.

¹⁹“And I will ^agive them one heart and give within ¹them a new spirit. And I will take the ^bheart of stone out of their flesh and give them a ^cheart of flesh,

²⁰that they may ^awalk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them. Then they will be ^bMy people, and I shall be their God.

²¹“¹But as for those whose hearts walk after their ^adetestable things and abominations, I will ^bgive what is due for their way on their heads,” declares Lord Yahweh.

The Glory of Yahweh Leaves Jerusalem

²²Then the cherubim ^alifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and ^bthe glory of the God of Israel ¹hovered over them.

²³The ^aglory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and ^bstood over the mountain which is east of the city.

²⁴Now the ^aSpirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in ¹Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen ^bwent up and away from me.

²⁵Then I ^atold the exiles all the things that Yahweh had shown me.