Ezekiel 11

¹The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east . And behold , at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men . And I saw among them 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 who give wicked counsel in this city ;

³who say , The time is not near to build houses . This city is the cauldron , and we are the meat .

⁴Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy , O son of man .

⁵And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, Say , Thus says the Lord: So you think , O house of Israel . For I know the things that come into your mind .

⁶You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain .

⁷Therefore thus says the Lord God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat , and this city is the cauldron , but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.

⁸You have feared the sword , and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God.

⁹And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners , and execute judgments upon you.

¹⁰You shall fall by the sword . I will judge you at the border of Israel , and you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹¹This city shall not be your cauldron , nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. 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 obeyed my rules , but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.

¹³And it came to pass, while I was prophesying , that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died . Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said , Ah , Lord God! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel ?

¹⁴And the word of the Lord came to me:

¹⁵Son of man , your brothers , even your brothers , your kinsmen , the whole house of Israel , all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said , Go far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession .

¹⁶Therefore say , Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations , and though I scattered them among the countries , yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone .

¹⁷Therefore say , Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered , and I will give you the land of Israel .

¹⁸And when they come there , they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations .

¹⁹And I will give them one heart , and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh ,

²⁰that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people , and I will be their God .

²¹But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations , I will bring their deeds upon their own heads , declares the Lord God.

²²Then the cherubim lifted up their wings , with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

²³And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city .

²⁴And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea , to the exiles . Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.