Ezekiel 11
11:1And spirit took me up, and led me unto the gate of the house of the lord, the one over against the one looking according to the east. And behold, upon the threshold of the gate were about twenty and five men. And I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the ones guiding the people.
11:2And he said to me, O son of man, these are the men considering vain things, and deliberating evil counsel in this city.
11:3The ones saying, Have they not recently built the houses? This is the kettle, and we are the meats.
11:4On account of this, prophesy against them! Prophesy, O son of man!
11:5And there fell upon me spirit of the lord. And he said to me, You say! Thus says the lord; As you said, O house of Israel, and the deliberations of your spirit I know.
11:6You multiplied your dead in this city, and you filled up her ways of slain ones.
11:7On account of this, thus says Adonai the lord; Your dead whom you struck in the midst of her, these are the meats, and she is the kettle. And you I will lead out from the midst of her.
11:8You fear the broadsword, and the broadsword I will bring upon you, says Adonai the lord.
11:9And I will lead you from the midst of her. And I will deliver you into the hands of strangers. And I will execute judgments among you.
11:10By the broadsword you shall fall. Upon the borders of Israel I will judge you, and you will realize that I am the lord.
11:11She shall not be to you for a kettle, and you in no way shall become in the midst of her for meat.
11:12Unto the borders of Israel I will judge you, and you shall know, for I am the lord. For you did not go in my commandments, and of my judgments you went not, and according to the judgments of the nations, of the ones around you, you went.
11:13And it came to pass in my prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell upon my face, and I yelled out with a great voice, and said, Alas, Adonai O lord, unto consummation do you appoint the remnant of Israel?
11:14And the word of the lord came to me, saying,
11:15O son of man, your brethren, and the men of your captivity, and all the house of Israel have come to completion, about whom the ones dwelling in Jerusalem said to them, You are far at a distance from the lord; the land has been given to us for an inheritance.
11:16On account of this, you say! Thus says Adonai the lord, that, I will thrust them into the nations, and I will disperse them into every land, and I will be to them for a small sanctuary in the places where ever they shall enter into there.
11:17On account of this, you say! Thus says Adonai the lord, that, I will take them from out of the nations, and I will gather them from out of the places of which I scattered them among them, and I will give to them the land of Israel.
11:18And they shall enter there, and they shall lift away all her abominations, and all her lawless deeds from out of her.
11:19And I will give to them another heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will pull out the stone heart from their flesh, and I will give to them a heart of flesh;
11:20so that they shall go by my orders, and they shall guard my ordinances, and they shall execute them. And they will be to me for a people, and I will be to them for God.
11:21And for the heart of their abominations, and of their lawlessnesses, as their heart went, I have imputed their ways against their heads, says Adonai the lord.
11:22And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were next to them, and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them, up above them.
11:23And the glory of the lord ascended from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which was before the city.
11:24And spirit took me up, and led me into the land of the Chaldeans, unto the captivity, in a vision by spirit of God. And I ascended from the vision which I beheld.
11:25And I spoke to the captivity all the words of the lord which he showed to me.