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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Spirit then lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the LORD's house, which faces east, and at the gate's entrance were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They are saying, 'Isn't the time near to build houses? The city is the pot, and we are the meat.' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore, prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man!" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the Spirit of the LORD came on me, and he told me, "You are to say, 'This is what the LORD says: That is what you are thinking, house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your mind. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"'Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have put within it are the meat, and the city is the pot, but I will take you out of it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will take you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners; I will execute judgments against you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat within it. I will judge you at the border of Israel, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.'" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out loudly, "Oh, Lord GOD! You are bringing the remnant of Israel to an end!" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The word of the LORD came to me again: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem your property, along with the entire house of Israel--all of them--are those to whom the residents of Jerusalem have said, 'You are far from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Therefore say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Therefore say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"When they arrive there, they will remove all its abhorrent acts and detestable practices from it. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will give them integrity of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone from their bodies and give them a heart of flesh, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20so that they will follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practice them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But as for those whose hearts pursue their desire for abhorrent acts and detestable practices, I will bring their conduct down on their own heads." This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, lifted their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stopped on the mountain east of the city. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea and to the exiles in a vision from the Spirit of God. After the vision I had seen left me, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I spoke to the exiles about all the things the LORD had shown me. |
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