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Ezekiel 11 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 - A wind lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - The LORD said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:3 - They say, 'The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:4 - Therefore, prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the LORD says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - Therefore, this is what the sovereign LORD says: 'The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:8 - You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,' declares the sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:9 - 'But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:10 - You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12 - Then you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!'"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, "Alas, sovereign LORD! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!"

Promise of Restoration

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:14 - Then the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - "Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'They have gone far away from the LORD; to us this land has been given as a possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - "Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - "Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:18 - "When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:19 - I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:20 - so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21 - But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:22 - Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - The glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:24 - Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:25 - So I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
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