Eze 11 | ESV | STEP | The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord , which faces east . And behold , at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men . And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur , and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah , princes of the people .

1 ^aThe Spirit lifted me up and brought me to ^bthe east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were ^ctwenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah ^dthe son of Azzur, and ^ePelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 And he said to me, ^f“Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city; 3 ^gwho say, ^h‘The time is not near ^{▼▼Or Is not the time near . . . ?} to build houses. ^jThis city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’ 4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man.”

5 And ^kthe Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the Lord: So you think, O house of Israel. ^lFor I know the things that come into your mind. 6 ^mYou have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: ⁿYour slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, ^othey are the meat, and ^pthis city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it. 8 ^qYou have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and ^rgive you into the hands of foreigners, and ^sexecute judgments upon you. 10 ^tYou shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, ^uand you shall know that I am the Lord. 11 ^vThis city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel, 12 and you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, ^wbut have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.”

13 And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, ^xthat ^yPelatiah the son of Benaiah died. ^zThen I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, ^aa“Ah, Lord God! ^abWill you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

Israel’s New Heart and Spirit

14 And the word of the Lord came to me: 15 ^ac“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, ^{▼▼Hebrew the men of your redemption} the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ^ae‘Go far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.’ 16 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet ^afI have been a sanctuary to them for a while ^{▼▼Or in small measure} in the countries where they have gone.’ 17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^ahI will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, ^aiand I will give you the land of Israel.’ 18 And when they come there, ^ajthey will remove from it all its ^akdetestable things and all its abominations. 19 ^alAnd I will give them one heart, and ^ama new spirit I will put within them. ^anI will remove the heart of stone from their flesh ^aoand give them a heart of flesh, 20 ^apthat they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. ^aqAnd they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 ^arBut as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, ^asI will ^{▼▼Hebrew To the heart of their detestable things and their abominations their heart goes; I will} bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”

22 ^auThen the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, ^avand the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and ^awstood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city. 24 ^axAnd the Spirit lifted me up and brought me ^ayin the vision by the Spirit of God ^azinto Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25 And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.