The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 11
1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and
brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s
house, which looks eastward. Behold,
twenty-five men were at the door of the
gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah
the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are
the men who devise iniquity, and who give
wicked counsel in this city;
3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build
houses. This is the cauldron, and we are
the meat.’
4 Therefore prophesy against them.
Prophesy, son of man.”
5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said
to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you
have said, house of Israel; for I know the
things that come into your mind.
6 You have multiplied your slain in this
city, and you have filled its streets with the
slain.”
7 “ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
“Your slain whom you have laid in the
middle of it, they are the meat, and this is
the cauldron; but you will be brought out
of the middle of it.
8 You have feared the sword; and I will
bring the sword on you,” says the Lord
Yahweh.
9 “I will bring you out of the middle
of it, and deliver you into the hands
of strangers, and will execute judgments
among you.
10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge
you in the border of Israel. Then you will
know that I am Yahweh.
11 This will not be your cauldron, neither
will you be the meat in the middle of it. I
will judge you in the border of Israel.
12 You will know that I am Yahweh,
for you have not walked in my statutes.
You have not executed my ordinances, but
have done after the ordinances of the nations
that are around you.”
13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face,
and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah
Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of
the remnant of Israel?”
14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your
brothers, the men of your relatives, and
all the house of Israel, all of them, are the
ones to whom the inhabitants ofJerusalem
have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This
land has been given to us for a possession.’
16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “Whereas I have removed them far off
among the nations, and whereas I have
scattered them among the countries, yet I
will be to thema sanctuary for a little while
in the countries where they have come.”
17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “I will gather you from the peoples,
and assemble you out of the countries
where you have been scattered, and I will
give you the land of Israel.”
18 “ ‘They will come there, and they will
take away all its detestable things and all
its abominations from there.
19 I will give them one heart, and I will
put a new spirit within them. I willtake the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give
them a heart of flesh,
20 that they may walk in my statutes, and
keep my ordinances, and do them. They
will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walks
after the heart of their detestable things
and their abominations, I will bring their
way on their own heads,’ says the Lord
Yahweh.”
22 Then the cherubim lifted up their
wings, and the wheels were beside them.
The glory of the God of Israel was over
them above.
23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the
city, and stood on the mountain
which is on the east side of the city.
24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought
me in the vision by the Spirit of God into
Chaldea, to the captives.
So the vision that I had seen went up
from me.
25 Then I spoke to the captives all the
things that Yahweh had shown me.