King James VersionEzekiel11

Ezekiel

1 More­over the spir­it lift­ed me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh east­ward: and be­hold at the door of the gate five and twen­ty men; among whom I saw Jaaza­ni­ah the son of Azur, and Pela­ti­ah the son of Be­na­iah, princes of the peo­ple. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that de­vise mis­chief, and give wicked coun­sel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; let us build hous­es: this c­i­ty is the cal­dron, and we be the flesh. 4 There­fore proph­esy against them, proph­esy, O son of man. 5 And the Spir­it of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Is­rael: for I know the things that come into your mind, ev­ery one of them. 6 Ye have mul­ti­plied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets there­of with the slain. 7 There­fore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this c­i­ty is the cal­dron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst there­of, and de­liv­er you into the hands of strangers, and will ex­e­cute judg­ments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the bor­der of Is­rael; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 11 This city shall not be your cal­dron, nei­ther shall ye be the flesh in the midst there­of; but I will judge you in the bor­der of Is­rael: 12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, nei­ther ex­e­cut­ed my judg­ments, but have done af­ter the man­ners of the hea­then that are round about you. 13 And it came to pass, when I proph­e­sied, that Pela­ti­ah the son of Be­na­iah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the rem­nant of Is­rael? 14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kin­dred, and all the house of Is­rael whol­ly, are they unto whom the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land giv­en in pos­ses­sion. 16 There­fore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Al­though I have cast them far off among the hea­then, and al­though I have scat­tered them among the coun­tries, yet will I be to them as a lit­tle sanc­tu­ary in the coun­tries where they shall come. 17 There­fore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gath­er you from the peo­ple, and as­sem­ble you out of the coun­tries where ye have been scat­tered, and I will give you the land of Is­rael. 18 And they shall come thith­er, and they shall take away all the de­testable things there­of and all the abom­i­na­tions there­of from thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spir­it with­in you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine or­di­nances, and do them: and they shall be my peo­ple, and I will be their God. 21 But as for them whose heart walketh af­ter the heart of their de­testable things and their abom­i­na­tions, I will rec­om­pense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. 22 Then did the cheru­bims lift up their wings, and the wheels be­side them; and the glo­ry of the God of Is­rael was over them above. 23 And the glo­ry of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the moun­tain which is on the east side of the city. 24 Af­ter­wards the spir­it took me up, and brought me in a vi­sion by the Spir­it of God into Chaldea, to them of the cap­tiv­i­ty. So the vi­sion that I had seen went up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the cap­tiv­i­ty all the things that the LORD had shewed me.