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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them 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 are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They say, 'Haven't our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a 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 on me, and he told me to say: "This is what the LORD says: That is what you are saying, you leaders in Israel, but I know what is going through your mind. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders 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 pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And you will know that I am the LORD, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, "Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, 'They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Therefore say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although 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 Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 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 are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread 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 went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me. |
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