Ezekiel 11

CLV(i) 1 And lift me up does a spirit, and it brings me in unto the east gate of the house of Yahweh, that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate twenty and five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people." 2 And He said unto me, `Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;" 3 who are saying, It [is] not near--to build houses, it [is] the pot, and we the flesh." 4 Therefore prophesy concerning them, prophesy, son of man.'" 5 And fall upon me does the Spirit of Yahweh, and He said unto me, `Say:Thus said Yahweh:Rightly you have said, O house of Israel, And the steps of your spirit I have known." 6 You multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded." 7 Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Your wounded whom you placed in its midst, They [are] the flesh, and it [is] the pot, And you he has brought out from its midst." 8 A sword you have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." 9 And I have brought you out of its midst, And given you into the hand of strangers, And I have done among you judgments." 10 By the sword you do fall, On the border of Israel I do judge you, And you have known that I [am] Yahweh." 11 It is not to you for a pot, Nor are you in its midst for flesh, At the border of Israel I do judge you." 12 And you have known that I [am] Yahweh, For in My statutes you have not walked, And My Judgments you have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you--you have done!'" 13 And it comes to pass, at my prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah is dying, and I fall on my face, and cry--a loud voice--and say, `Ah, Lord Yahweh, an end You are making of the remnant of Israel.'" 14 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, 15 `Son of man, your brethren, your brethren, men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel--all of it, [are] they to whom inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Keep far off from Yahweh;" 16 it [is] ours, the land has been given for an inheritance; therefore say:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in." 17 Therefore say:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:And I have assembled you from the peoples, And I have gathered you from the lands, Into which you have been scattered, And I have given to you the ground of Israel." 18 And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations--out of it." 19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh." 20 So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for Elohim." 21 As to those whose heart is going unto the heart Of their detestable and their abominable things, Their way on their head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh.'" 22 And the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels [are] over-against them, and the honor of the Elohim of Israel [is] over them above." 23 And the honor of Yahweh goes up from off the midst of the city, and stands on the mountain, that [is] on the east of the city." 24 And a spirit has lifted me up, and brings me in to Chaldea, unto the Removed, in a vision, by the Spirit of Elohim, and go up from off me does the vision that I have seen;" 25 and I speak unto the Removed all the matters of Yahweh that He has showed me.