Ezekiel 11 - LSB Bible Online

Ezekiel 11

Judgment on Evil Counselors

Moreover, the ^aSpirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Yahweh which faced eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate, there were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and ^bPelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. 2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise wickedness and ^agive evil counsel in this city, 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. ¹This ^acity is the pot, and we are the flesh.’ 4 Therefore, ^aprophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!”
5 Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and He said to me, “Say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “So you say, house of Israel, for ^aI know what comes up in your ^bspirit. 6 You have ^amultiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with ¹them.” 7 Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Your ^aslain whom you have laid in the midst of ¹the city are the flesh, and this city is the pot; but ²I will ^bbring you out of it. 8 You have ^afeared a sword; so a sword I will ^bbring upon you,” Lord Yahweh declares. 9 “And I will bring you out of the midst of ¹the city and give you into the hands of ^astrangers and ^bexecute judgments against you. 10 You will ^afall by the sword. I will judge you to the ^bborder of Israel; so you shall know that I am Yahweh. 11 This city will ^anot be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel. 12 Thus you will know that I am Yahweh; for you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you ^aexecuted My judgments, but have executed according to the judgments of the ^bnations around you.”’”
13 Now it happened as I prophesied, that ^aPelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “^bAlas, Lord Yahweh! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to complete destruction?”

Yahweh Will Gather the Exiles

14 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 15 “Son of man, your brothers, your ¹relatives, ²your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from Yahweh; this land has been given to ^aus as a possession.’ 16 Therefore say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a ^asanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’ 17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will ^agather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”’ 18 When they come there, they will ^aremove all its ^bdetestable things and all its abominations from it. 19 And I will ^agive them one heart and give within ¹them a new spirit. And I will take the ^bheart of stone out of their flesh and give them a ^cheart of flesh, 20 that they may ^awalk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them. Then they will be ^bMy people, and I shall be their God. 21 ¹But as for those whose hearts walk after their ^adetestable things and abominations, I will ^bgive what is due for their way on their heads,” declares Lord Yahweh.

The Glory of Yahweh Leaves Jerusalem

22 Then the cherubim ^alifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and ^bthe glory of the God of Israel ¹hovered over them. 23 The ^aglory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and ^bstood over the mountain which is east of the city. 24 Now the ^aSpirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in ¹Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen ^bwent up and away from me. 25 Then I ^atold the exiles all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

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