Ezekiel 11 The Spirit lifted me and took me to the east gate of Jehovah’s Temple. It is the gate that faces east. Twenty-five men were at the entrance of the gate. I saw among them Azzur's son Jaazaniah and Benaiah's son Pelatiah. They were leaders of the people.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The Spirit lifted me and took me to the east gate of Jehovah’s Temple. It is the gate that faces east. Twenty-five men were at the entrance of the gate. I saw among them Azzur's son Jaazaniah and Benaiah's son Pelatiah. They were leaders of the people. ² Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city (Jerusalem). ³ »They say: ‘It is almost time to rebuild houses. This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.’ ⁴ »So prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.« ⁵ Jehovah’s Spirit came to me and told me to say: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘You are saying these things, nation of Israel. But I know what is going through your mind. ⁶ ‘»You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.«’ ⁷ »I, the Lord Jehovah, say to you: ‘This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here. I will throw you out of the city!’« ⁸ ‘»Are you afraid of swords? I will bring soldiers with swords to attack you,’ is the utterance of Jehovah. ⁹ ‘I will take you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments against you. ¹⁰ ‘»You will be killed in battle in your own country. I will judge you on the border of Israel. Then everyone will know that I am Jehovah. ¹¹ ‘»This city will not protect you the way a cooking pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel. ¹² ‘»You will know that I am Jehovah! While you were keeping the laws of the neighboring nations, you were breaking my laws and disobeying my commands.’« ¹³ »It happened while I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said: Alas, O Lord Jehovah! Will you bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?« ¹⁴ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, He said: ¹⁵ »Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: ‘Go far from Jehovah. This land has been given us as a possession.’ ¹⁶ »Therefore say: ‘Thus says the Lord Jehovah: »Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary (holy place) (shelter) (protection) for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.«’ ¹⁷ »Therefore say, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered. I will give you the land of Israel. ¹⁸ ‘»When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. ¹⁹ ‘»I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition). ²⁰ ‘»In this way they may walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ²¹ ‘»Concerning those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.’« ²² Then the cherubim (angels) lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. ²³ The glory of Jehovah went up from within the city and stood over the mountain that is east of the city. ²⁴ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me. ²⁵ Then I told the exiles all the things that Jehovah had shown me.