43 Then the man took me to the gate that opened to the east. 2 Wow! The splendour of Yisrael’s God appeared to the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing water, and the land shone with his brilliance.[ref] 3 What I saw in this vision was like what I had seen in my earlier visions, first by the Kevar Canal, then later when he[fn] came to destroy Yerushalem. I fell to my knees with my face to the ground. 4 So Yahweh’s brightness entered into the temple via the eastern entrance.

5 Then the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and wow, Yahweh’s brilliance was filling the temple. 6 Then as the man was standing there beside me, I heard someone speak to me from inside the temple 7 and the voice told me, “Humanity’s child, this is the place where I’ll sit on my throne and rest my feet—where I’ll live in the middle of the Israeli people forever. Yisrael’s descendants and their kings will no longer profane my sacred name with their faithlessness or with the corpses of their kings at their hilltop shrines. 8 They’ll no longer profane my sacred name by putting their entrance next to my entrance, and their doorposts next to my doorposts, with nothing but a wall between me and them. They profaned my sacred name with their disgusting actions, so I destroyed them with my anger. 9 Now let them remove their prostitution and their kings’ corpses from before me, and I will live among them forever.

10 “Humanity’s child, describe that temple to the Israeli people so they’ll be ashamed of their disobedience and consider those plans. 11 If they are ashamed of everything they’ve done, then reveal the design of that temple to them—its details, its entrances and exits, and all its designs, all its decrees and rules. Then right in front of them, write that down so they will keep to all its design and all its rules, and then obey them. 12 This is the regulation for the temple: From the peak of the hill to all the surrounding border around it, it will be very sacred. Listen, that’s the regulation for the temple.