Ezekiel 11

Judgment on Wicked Counselors

11Then ^athe Spirit lifted me up and brought me to ^bthe East Gate of the Lord’s house, which faces eastward; and there ^cat the door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. ²And He said to me: “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give wicked ¹counsel in this city, ³who say, ‘The time is not ^dnear to build houses; ^ethis city is the ²caldron, and we are the meat.’ ⁴Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!”

⁵Then ^fthe Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, “Speak! ‘Thus says the Lord: “Thus you have said, O house of Israel; for ^gI know the things that come into your mind. ^6hYou have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.” ⁷Therefore thus says the Lord God: ⁱ“Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; ^jbut I shall bring you out of the midst of it. ⁸You have ^kfeared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,” says the Lord God. ⁹“And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and ^lexecute judgments on you. ^10mYou shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at ⁿthe border of Israel. ^oThen you shall know that I am the Lord. ^11pThis city shall not be your ³caldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst. I will judge you at the border of Israel. ¹²And you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but ^qhave done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”

¹³Now it happened, while I was prophesying, that ^rPelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then ^sI fell on my face and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You make a complete end of the remnant of Israel?”

God Will Restore Israel

¹⁴Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁵“Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Get far away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’ ¹⁶Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, ^tyet I shall be a little ⁴sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” ’ ¹⁷Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^u“I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’ ¹⁸And they will go there, and they will take away all its ^vdetestable things and all its abominations from there. ¹⁹Then ^wI will give them one heart, and I will put ^xa new spirit within ⁵them, and take ^ythe stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, ^20zthat they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; ^aand they shall be My people, and I will be their God. ²¹But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, ^bI will recompense their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

²²So the cherubim ^clifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them. ²³And ^dthe glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood ^eon the mountain, ^fwhich is on the east side of the city.

²⁴Then ^gthe Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into ⁶Chaldea, to those in captivity. And the vision that I had seen went up from me. ²⁵So I spoke to those in captivity of all the things the Lord had shown me.