Ezekiel 11

1 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of YHWH, facing eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate [were] twenty-five men, and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 And He said to me: “Son of man, these [are] the men devising iniquity and counseling evil counsel in this city,

3 those saying, ‘[It is] not near [for] building houses? She [is] the pot, and we [are] the meat!’

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

5 And fell upon me the Spirit of YHWH, and He said to me, “Say, thus says YHWH: Thus you⁺ have said, O house of Israel—and the [things] coming upon your⁺ spirit I know.

6 You⁺ have multiplied your⁺ slain in this city, and its streets you⁺ have filled [with] the slain.

7 Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: Your⁺ slain that you⁺ have set in its midst, they [are] the flesh, and she [is] the pot; and you⁺ will be brought out from her midst.

8 The sword you⁺ have feared, and the sword I will bring upon you⁺, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

9 And I will bring you⁺ out from her midst, and I will give you⁺ into the hands of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you⁺.

10 By the sword you⁺ will fall, [and] at the border of Israel I will judge you⁺. And you⁺ will know that I [am] YHWH.

11 She will not be a pot for you⁺, [nor] will you⁺ be in her midst as meat; at the border of Israel I will judge you⁺,

12 and you⁺ will know that I [am] YHWH. For in My statutes you⁺ have not walked, and My ordinances you⁺ have not done, and according to the ordinances of the nations that [are] around you⁺ you⁺ have done.”

13 And it came to pass in my prophesying that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. And I fell on my face and cried out [in] a great voice, and said: “Ah, Lord YHWH! [Are] You going to make to a complete end of the remnant of Israel?”

14 And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

15 “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel—all of it, [are] those whom those dwelling in Jerusalem have said to them, ‘Get far away from YHWH; this land has been given to us as a possession.’

16 Therefore say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Although I have set them far away among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the lands, I have been for them for a little while a sanctuary in the lands to which they have gone there.’

17 Therefore say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘And I will gather you⁺ from the peoples, and will assemble you⁺ from the lands to which you⁺ have been scattered in them, and I will give to you⁺ the land of Israel.’

18 And they will go there, and they will turn aside all her detestable [things] and all her abominations from her.

19 And I will give to them a single heart, and I will give a new spirit within them; and I will turn away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,

20 so that they may walk in My statutes and they may keep My ordinances and may do them; and they will be unto Me for a people, and I will be unto them God.

21 And to those whose heart their detestable [things] and whose heart their abominations is going after, their deeds I will recompense upon their own heads! An utterance of the Lord YHWH.”

22 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels [were] beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them from above.

23 And the glory of YHWH went up from the midst of the city, and it stood on the mountain that [is] on the east of the city.

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

25 And I spoke to the captivity all the words of YHWH that He had shown to me.