Ezekiel 12:3-16 »Son of man, pack your bags as if you were going into exile. Let the people see you leave in the daylight. March like a captive from your place to another place as they watch. Maybe they will understand, even though they are a rebellious people (house).

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ »Son of man, pack your bags as if you were going into exile. Let the people see you leave in the daylight. March like a captive from your place to another place as they watch. Maybe they will understand, even though they are a rebellious people (house). ⁴ »Bring out your bags as if you were going into exile. Let them see this in the daylight. In the evening let them see you leave like a captive going into exile. ⁵ »Dig a hole through the wall of your house, as they watch, and leave through it. ⁶ »Let them see you put your bags on your shoulders and carry them out in the dark. Cover your face so that you won't see the land. I have made you a sign to warn the nation of Israel.« ⁷ I did what I was ordered to do. During the day I brought out bags as if I were going into exile. In the evening I dug a hole through the wall. I brought out my bags in the dark. I let the people see me as I carried my bags on my shoulders. ⁸ The next morning Jehovah spoke his word to me, He said: ⁹ »Son of man, did the rebellious nation of Israel ask you what you were doing? ¹⁰ »Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.’« ¹¹ »Tell them: ‘I am your warning sign. What I have done will happen to you. You will go into exile and into captivity. ¹² ‘»The prince who is among you will put his bags on his shoulders in the dark and leave. People will dig holes in the wall to go through. The prince will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.’« ¹³ »I will also spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, though he will die there. ¹⁴ »I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops. I will draw out a sword after them. ¹⁵ »So they will know that I am Jehovah when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries. ¹⁶ »I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Jehovah.«