Ezekiel 11 Then a blast of wind took me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord which was directly in front and which faced the east. And behold at the vestibule of the gate about five and twenty men! And I saw in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer and Phaltias the son of Banaias, the leaders of the people.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then a blast of wind took me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord which was directly in front and which faced the east. And behold at the vestibule of the gate about five and twenty men! And I saw in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer and Phaltias the son of Banaias, the leaders of the people. ² And the Lord said to me, son of man, these are the men who devise vanities and who give bad advice in the city, ³ who say, Are not the houses lately rebuilt? This is the cauldron, but we are the flesh. ⁴ Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, Son of man. ⁵ Thereupon the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, Say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus have you spoken, house of Israel, for I know the counsels of your mind: ⁶ you have multiplied your dead in this city, and filled the highways with the slain: ⁷ therefore thus saith the Lord, your dead men whom you have slain in the midst of it, they are the flesh and it is the cauldron. As for you I will drag you out of the midst of it. ⁸ You are afraid of the sword, therefore I will bring a sword against you, saith the Lord, ⁹ and drag you out of the midst of it and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgment upon you. ¹⁰ By the sword you shall fall. On the mountain of Israel I will judge you; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹¹ [Omitted] ¹² [Omitted] ¹³ And it came to pass while I was prophesying that Phaltias the son of Banaias died, whereupon I fell on my face and cried with a loud voice and said, Alas! Alas! O Lord, art thou making an utter end of the remnant of Israel? ¹⁴ Upon which a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁵ Son of man, an end was put to thy brethren and to the men of thy captivity and to all the house of Israel, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Away with you far from the Lord: to us this land is given for an inheritance. ¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, I will drive these away to the nations and scatter them to every land. But I will be to those a little sanctuary in all the countries to which they have come. ¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, I will take those in from among the nations and collect them from the countries in which I have dispersed them and give them the land of Israel ¹⁸ and they shall come hither and remove all its abominations and all its iniquities out of it; ¹⁹ and I will give them another heart and put a new spirit in them; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh ²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and execute them. And they shall be my people and I will be their God. ²¹ But as the heart of these was entirely devoted to their abominations and their iniquities, I have requited their ways upon their heads, saith the Lord ²² Then the cherubims raised their wings and the wheels were close by them and the glory of the God of Israel was above over them. ²³ And the glory of the Lord ascended up out of the midst of the city and halted on the mountain which was over against the city. ²⁴ And a blast of wind took me up and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision, by the spirit of God. ²⁵ And I went up on account of the vision which I saw and spoke to all the captivity all the things which the Lord had shewn me.