Moff EZE Chapter 11

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11 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gateway of the Eternal’s temple; and there, at the door of the gateway, I saw twenty-five men, among whom I noticed Jaazaniah the son of Azzur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the popular leaders! 2 “Son of man,” he said to me, “these are the men who make wicked plans and offer evil counsel in this city; 3 they argue, ‘Houses have been recently rebuilding; all is well! The city is a cauldron, and we are the flesh, safe inside it!’ 4 So prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.” 5 Then the Spirit of the Eternal seized me; he said to me, “Utter this word from the Eternal: ‘So you think, O Israel! I know what occurs to your mind! 6 But it is the many men you have murdered in this city, heaping the streets with their corpses, 7 it is these murdered men, laid low by you, it is they--says the Lord Eternal--they who are to be the flesh inside this cauldron of a city; as for you, I will drag you out of it. 8 You are in terror of the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you--says the Lord the Eternal. 9 Out of the city I will drag you, and hand you over to foreigners; I will inflict punishment upon you, 10 as by the sword you fall, and I punish you at the far borders of Israel--to teach you that I am the Eternal. 11 This city shall be no cauldron for you; you shall not be the flesh inside it, safe and sound! At the far borders of Israel I will punish you-- 12 to teach you that I am the Eternal; for you have not lived by my laws, you have not carried out my orders, you have followed the practices of the nations around you.’ ”

13 As I was delivering this prediction, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried aloud, “Alas, O Lord Eternal, wilt thou wipe out the survivors of Israel?” 14 Then this word from the Eternal came to me, 15 “Son of man, the citizens of Jerusalem say of your kinsmen, your fellow-exiles, the entire community of Israel, ‘You are far away from the Eternal; this land belongs to us.’ 16 Say this therefore: The Lord the Eternal declares, ‘True, I have sent them afar among the nations and scattered them over foreign lands; but I will be a sanctuary for them in their place of exile for a while, 17 and then--says the Lord the Eternal--I will gather them from the nations and collect them from the countries where they have been scattered and give them the land of Israel; 18 they shall come back and clear it of all its loathsome and detestable impieties. 19 And I will give them a new nature and put a new spirit into them, I will remove their hard nature and give them a nature that can be touched, 20 that they may live by my laws and observe and obey my orders; so they shall be my own people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for these others, who are devoted to their loathsome practices and detestable impieties, I will make them suffer for their conduct, says the Lord the Eternal.’ ”

22 Then the kherubs spread their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the Splendour of the God of Israel over them both; 23 and the Splendour of the Eternal ascended from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountains to the east of the city. 24 The Spirit lifted me and brought me in the vision back to the exiles in Chaldea; the vision I saw departed from me, 25 and I told the exiles all that the Eternal had shown me.

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