Old Testament · Prophets

Ezekiel chapter 11

Then the lifted me up and carried me to the east gate of —the one that faces the sunrise. And there at the entrance of the gate stood twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, of the people.And he said to me: “, these are the men who and give deadly counsel in this city.They say, ‘Isn’t it time to build houses? This city is the , and we are the meat.’So against them—prophesy, son of man!Then the fell on me and told me to say: “This is what Yahweh says— I know every thought in your heads, people of Israel. I know what .You have in this city. You have filled its streets with corpses.So the says this: The dead you threw in the streets— they are the . But you? You will be dragged out of it.You are afraid of the — and I will bring the sword against you,” declares the Sovereign Yahweh.“I will drag you out of the city and . I will on you.You will fall by the sword. I will judge you at the . Then .This city will not be your pot, and you will not be the meat inside it. I will judge you at the borders of Israel.Then you will know that I am Yahweh— whose you refused to follow, whose you refused to keep. Instead, you lived by the rules of the .While I was still prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah . I and cried out in a loud voice: “Sovereign Yahweh! Will you completely destroy ?”Then the came to me:“Son of man—, the whole house of Israel, every one of them— these are the ones Jerusalem’s people say about: ‘They’ve been . This land has been given to us now.’So tell them: this is what the Sovereign Yahweh says, ‘Yes, I sent them far away among the nations. Yes, I scattered them across foreign lands. But I myself have been wherever they have gone.’So tell them: this is what the Sovereign Yahweh says— ‘I will you from the peoples. I will collect you from the countries where you’ve been scattered. And I will give you back the land of Israel.’When they return, they will remove every and every from it.And I will give them a . I will put a inside them. I will take out the from their bodies and give them a —so that they will and carefully keep my standards. They will be my people, and I will be their God.But those whose hearts chase after their disgusting idols and detestable things— I will ,” declares the Sovereign Yahweh.Then the lifted their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the of the God of Israel hovered above them.And the glory of Yahweh rose up from the middle of the city and stopped on the .Then the Breath lifted me up and brought me back—in this —to the in Babylon. And the vision I had seen rose up and left me.Then I told the exiles everything Yahweh had shown me.