nsb - Ezekiel:11

nsb@Ezekiel:11:1 @ The Spirit lifted me and took me to the east gate of Jehovahs Temple. It is the gate that faces east. Twenty-five men were at the entrance of the gate. I saw among them Azzur's son Jaazaniah and Benaiah's son Pelatiah. They were leaders of the people.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:2 @ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:3 @ »They say: It is almost time to rebuild houses. This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:4 @ »So prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:5 @ Jehovahs Spirit came to me and told me to say: »This is what Jehovah says: You are saying these things, nation of Israel. But I know what is going through your mind.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:6 @ »You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:7 @ »I, the Lord Jehovah, say to you: This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here. I will throw you out of the city!«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:8 @ »Are you afraid of swords? I will bring soldiers with swords to attack you, is the utterance of Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:9 @ I will take you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments against you.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:10 @ »You will be killed in battle in your own country. I will judge you on the border of Israel. Then everyone will know that I am Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:11 @ »This city will not protect you the way a cooking pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:12 @ »You will know that I am Jehovah! While you were keeping the laws of the neighboring nations, you were breaking my laws and disobeying my commands.«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:13 @ »It happened while I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said: Alas, O Lord Jehovah! Will you bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:14 @ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:11:15 @ »Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Go far from Jehovah. This land has been given us as a possession.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:16 @ »Therefore say: Thus says the Lord Jehovah: »Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:17 @ »Therefore say, The Lord Jehovah says: »I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered. I will give you the land of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:18 @ »When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:19 @ »I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone out of them and give them a heart of flesh.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:20 @ »In this way they may walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:21 @ »Concerning those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:22 @ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:23 @ The glory of Jehovah went up from within the city and stood over the mountain that is east of the city.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:24 @ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:25 @ Then I told the exiles all the things that Jehovah had shown me.