The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

 1 Moreover the ^aspirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the ^beast gate of the Lord’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, ^cprinces of the people.

 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

 3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

 4 ¶Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

 5 And the ^aSpirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I ^bknow the things that come into your ^cmind, every one of them.

 6 Ye have multiplied your ^aslain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of ^astrangers, and will execute judgments among you.

 10 Ye shall ^afall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

 12 And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my ^ajudgments, but have done after the ^bmanners of the ^cheathen that are round about you.

 13 ¶And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

 14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, ^athe men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord: unto us is this land given in possession.

 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little ^asanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even ^agather you from the ^bpeople, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the ^cland of Israel.

 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

 19 And I will ^agive them one ^bheart, and I will put a ^cnew ^dspirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an ^eheart of flesh:

 20 That they may ^awalk in my statutes, and keep mine ^bordinances, and do them: and they shall be my ^cpeople, and I will be their God.

 21 But as for them whose heart ^awalketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will ^brecompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God.

 22 ¶Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the ^aglory of the God of Israel was over them above.

 23 And the ^aglory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

 24 ¶Afterwards the ^aspirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me.