[1] Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of
Yahweh`s house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate
twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of 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 [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh. [4] Therefore prophesy
against them, prophesy, son of man. [5] The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me,
and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you 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 the streets of it
with the slain. [7] Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom
you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is
the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst 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 forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. [10] You
shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. [11] This [city] shall not be your caldron,
neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the
border of Israel; [12] and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have
not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but
have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.
[13] It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.
Then fell I 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] The word of
Yahweh 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 they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you
far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession. [16] Therefore
say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among
the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet
will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where
they are come. [17] Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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 shall
come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and
all the abominations of it from there. [19] 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 a heart of flesh; [20] that they may walk
in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall 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 did the
cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the
glory of the God of Israel was over them above. [23] The glory of Yahweh
went up from the midst 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 them of the captivity. So
the vision that I had seen went up from me. [25] Then I spoke to them of
the captivity all the things that Yahweh had showed me.
