Ezekiel 11:3–12
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11:3They say,4 ‘The time is not near to build houses;5 the city6 is a cooking pot7 and we are the meat in it.’ 11:4Therefore, prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!”
11:5Then the Spirit of the Lord came8 upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking,9 O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.1011:6You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’ 11:7Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped11 in the midst of the city12 are the meat, and this city13 is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.1411:8You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord. 11:9‘But I will take you out of the city.15 And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you. 11:10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 11:11This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not16 be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel. 11:12Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’ ”
Footnotes
- 4 The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.
- 5 The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).
- 6 Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.
- 7 Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3–8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.
- 8 Heb “fell.”
- 9 The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3).
- 10 Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”
- 11 Heb “placed.”
- 12 Heb “in its midst.”
- 13 Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.
- 14 Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of ).
- 15 Heb “its midst.”
- 16 The Hebrew text does not have the negative particle, but it is implied. The negative particle in the previous line does double duty here.
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