| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the LORD'S house which faced eastward. And behold, there were twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and 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] | 2He said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3who say, 'Is not the time near to build houses? This city is the pot and we are the flesh.' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Therefore, prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said to me, "Say, 'Thus says the LORD, "So you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the flesh and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you," the Lord GOD declares. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Thus you will know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you."'" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 the LORD; this land has been given us as a possession.' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "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."' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me. |
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