LEB - Ezekiel - 11

11:1  And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to the eastern gate, the one facing east, of the temple of Yahweh. And look, there were twenty-five men in the doorway of the gate, and I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur in the midst of them, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the commanders of the people.

11:2  And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men ⌞who devise mischief⌟, and who are offering bad counsel in this city,

11:3  who are saying, “The building of houses is not near; the city is the pot, and we are the flesh.

11:4  Therefore prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!”

11:5  And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, “Say, ‘thus says Yahweh: “This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.

11:6  You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones.” ’

11:7  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Your slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and I will bring you out from its midst.

11:8  The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!” ⌞declares⌟ the Lord Yahweh.

11:9  “And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you.

11:10  By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

11:11  It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would be in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you.

11:12  And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted.” ’

11:13  And it happened that ⌞as I was prophesying⌟, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!”

11:14  And the word of Yahweh ⌞came⌟ to me, ⌞saying⌟,

11:15  “Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, ⌞who said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem⌟, ‘They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.’

11:16  Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries ⌞to which they have gone⌟.’ ”

11:17  Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “And I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you.

11:18  And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.

11:19  And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,

11:20  so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.

11:21  But to the heart of their abominations and the detestable things their heart is going. I will bring their way on their head,” ⌞declares⌟ the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

11:22  Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and their wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel ⌞was over them⌟.

11:23  And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and it stood still on the mountain that is to the east of the city.

11:24  And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to Chaldea, to the exiles, in the vision by the spirit of God; and the vision that I had seen ⌞left me⌟.

11:25  And I spoke to the exiles all of the words of Yahweh that he had shown me.