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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A wind lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials 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 say, 'The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.' |
| 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 upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the LORD says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, this is what the sovereign LORD says: 'The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,' declares the sovereign LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You will die by the sword; 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] | 11This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations 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 threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, "Alas, sovereign LORD! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'They have gone far away from the LORD; to us this land has been given as a possession.' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign LORD." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me. |
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