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EZEKIEL ยท Chapter 11
11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
gate of the LORD's house, which looks 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.
11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the
caldron, and we be the flesh.
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak;
Thus says the LORD; Thus have all of you said, O house of Israel: for I
know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
11:6 All of you have multiplied your slain in this city, and all of
you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
11:7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Your slain whom all of you 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.
11:8 All of you have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon
you, says the Lord GOD.
11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
11:10 All of you shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and all of you shall know that I am the LORD.
11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall all of you
be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of
Israel:
11:12 And all of you shall know that I am the LORD: for all of you
have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have
done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
11:13 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! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
11:15 Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren, the men of your
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.
11:16 Therefore say, Thus says 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.
11:17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where all of you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
11:19 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:
11:20 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.
11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own
heads, says the Lord GOD.
11:22 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.
11:23 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.
11:24 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.
11:25 Then I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that the
LORD had showed me.
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