Ezekiel:11

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* And a spirit bore me up , and brought me unto the east gate of the house of the Lord , which looketh eastward : and behold , there were at the entrance of the gate five and twenty men ; and I saw in the midst of them Yaazanyah the son of ‘Azzur , and Pelatyahu the son of Benayahu , princes of the people . * Then said he unto me , Son of man , these are the men that devise wickedness , and give evil counsel in this city ; * Who say , is not near ; so let us build houses : this is the pot , and we are the flesh . * Therefore prophesy against them , prophesy , O son of man . * And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me , and said unto me , Speak , Thus hath said the Lord , Thus have ye said , O house of Israel ; and whatever cometh into your mind , do I know full well . * Ye have multiplied those slain by you in this city , and ye have filled its streets with the slain . * Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal , Those slain by you whom ye have struck down in the midst of it , ––they are the flesh , and this place is the pot ; but you are to be removed out of the midst of it . * The sword have ye feared : and the sword will I bring over you , saith the Lord Eternal . * And I will remove you out of the midst of it , and I will give you up into the hand of strangers , and will execute punishments among you . * By the sword shall ye fall ; on the boundary of Israel will I judge you : and ye shall know that I am the Lord . * This place shall not be unto you as a pot , so that you should be as flesh in the midst of it ; but on the boundary of Israel will I judge you . * And ye shall know that I am the Lord : because in my statutes have ye not walked , and my ordinances have ye not executed ; but ye have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you . * And it came to pass , as I was prophesying , that Pelatyahu the son of Benayah died . Then fell I down upon my face , and cried with a loud voice , and said , Ah Lord Eternal ! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel ? * Then came the word of the Lord unto me , saying , * Son of man , thy brethren , even thy brethren , the men of thy kindred , and the whole house of Israel altogether , are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said , Remain you far from the Lord : unto us is this land given for a possession . * Therefore say , Thus hath said the Lord Eternal , Although I have removed them far away among the nations , and although I have scattered them among the countries : yet will I be to them as a minor sanctuary in the countries whither they are come . * Therefore say , Thus hath said the Lord Eternal , I will both gather you from the people , and assemble you out of the countries whether ye have been scattered , and I will give you the land of Israel . * And they shall come thither , and they shall remove all its detestable things , and all its abominations out of it . * And I will give them one single heart , and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will remove the heart of stone out of their body , and I will give unto them a heart of flesh : * In order that they may walk in my statutes , and keep my ordinances , and do them ; and they shall be unto me for a people , and I will indeed be unto them for a God . * But as for those whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations , their way do I bring upon their own head , saith the Lord Eternal . * Then did the cherubim lift up their wings , and the wheels at the same time with them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above . * And the glory of the Lord ascended from the midst of the city , and halted upon the mount which is on the east side of the city . * But a spirit bore me up , and brought me into Chaldea , to those in exile , in the appearance through the spirit of God : and then ascended away from me the appearance which I had seen . * Then did I speak unto those in exile all the things that the Lord had shown me .

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