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Ezekiel 11
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the
gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the
caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And 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 the things
that come into your mind, every one of them.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled
the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid
in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will
bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
saith the Lord GOD.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in
my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of
the heathen that are round about you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
15 Son 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 you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in
possession.
16 Therefore 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 will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where
they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give
them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and
do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their
own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city,
and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by
the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I
had seen went up from me.
25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the
LORD had shewed me.
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